Popular eugenics
Subtitle: national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s
By: edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell.
Contributors: Currell, Susan.; Cogdell, Christina.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780821416914; 9780821416921
Subjects: Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Eugenics -- Social aspects -- United States.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Eugenics in literature.; Eugenics in motion pictures.; United States -- History -- 1919-1933.; United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Susan Currell; title: A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline; title: Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell; title: "Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani; title: "Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis; title: Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies; title: Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender; title: The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner; title: The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey; title: Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell; title: Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter; title: Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper; title: Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely; title: Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith; title: The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent.