Conceiving the future
Subtitle: pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938
By: Laura L. Lovett.
Series: Gender and American culture; Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780807831076; 9780807858035
Subjects: Family -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Family size -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Family policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Nostalgia -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nostalgia, modernism, and the family ideal; title: New occasions teach new duties : Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda; title: Reclaiming the home : George H. Maxwell and the homecroft movement; title: The political economy of sex : Edward A. Ross and race suicide; title: Men like trees walking : Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation of the race; title: Fitter families for future firesides : Florence Sherbon and popular eugenics; title: American pronatalism.