Building a Better Race
Subtitle: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9790520225021
Subjects: American studies; Eugenics & breeding; Gender Studies; Population & demography; 20th century; Social Science; General; Sociology; USA; Discrimination & Racism; History / General; Eugenics; History; Moral conditions; United States
First sentence: In 1915, despite the onset of World War 1 and the lingering effects of the 1906 earthquake, San Francisco hosted the Panama Pacific International Exposition.
Description: "Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with notions of gender and morality. Demonstrating that eugenic ideas were far more powerful in public discourse than other historians have indicated, Kline shows how eugenics could have seemed a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the first half of the twentieth century.

Its appeal to social conscience and shared desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked popular as well as scientific interest."--BOOK JACKET.