Framing the Moron
Subtitle: The Social Construction of Feeble-Mindedness in the American Eugenic Era
Publisher: Manchester University Press; distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780719087097
Subjects: Involuntary sterilization; United states, history
Description: Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated.