
American Eugenics : Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism.
Title:
American Eugenics : Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism.
Author:
Ordover, Nancy.
ISBN:
9780816691487
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: National Hygiene: Twentieth-Century Immigration and the Eugenics Lobby -- ImagiNation -- Calculating Hysteria -- The Immigrant Within -- The Pioneer Fund: Scientific Racism and the Eugenic Endowment -- "Indiscriminate Kindness" and "Maudlin Sentimentalism": Fighting the "Philanthropic" Impulse -- The Abiding Panic -- II: Queer Anatomy: One Hundred Years of Diagnosis, Dissection, and Political Strategy -- Science as Savior -- Delineating Deviance: Moral Imperatives, Hereditarian Hypotheses, and the Letter of the Law -- Biological Apologists: Appeals and Miscalculations -- Gender, Race, and the Strategy of Metaphor -- Homosexuality and the Bio/Psych Merge: An Additive Model of Causation Theories -- AIDS, Backlash, and the Myth of Liberatory Biologism -- III: Sterilization and Beyond: The Liberal Appeal of the Technofix -- Liberal Loopholes -- Buck v. Bell and Before -- Margaret Sanger and the Eugenic Compact -- Physical Fallout: Racism, Eugenics, and Liberal Accomplices after World War II -- New Technologies, Old Politics: Norplant and Beyond -- Disability and Eugenics: The Constant Consensus -- Quinacrine, the Next Wave -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The Nazis may have given eugenics its negative connotations, but the practice-and the "science" that supports it-is still disturbingly alive in America. Tracing the historical roots and persistence of eugenics in the United States, Nancy Ordover explores the political and cultural climate that has endowed these campaigns with mass appeal and scientific legitimacy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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