ISBN:
9780807868102
,
0807868108
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9781469604725
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1469604728
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 236 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Gender and American culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lovett, Laura L Conceiving the future
DDC:
306.8509730904
Keywords:
Families History
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20th century
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United States
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Family size History
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20th century
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United States
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Family policy History
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20th century
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United States
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Eugenics History
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20th century
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United States
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Nostalgia History
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20th century
;
United States
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Family size History 20th century
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Family policy History 20th century
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Eugenics History 20th century
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Nostalgia History 20th century
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Families History 20th century
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Family
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United States
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Eugenics
;
history
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United States
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History, 20th Century
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United States
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Reproduction
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United States
;
Social Change
;
history
;
United States
;
USA
;
United States
;
Eugenics history
;
Family
;
History, 20th Century
;
Reproduction
;
Social Change history
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference
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HISTORY ; United States ; 20th Century
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Eugenics
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Families
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Family policy
;
Family size
;
Nostalgia
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Familie
;
History
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United States
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USA
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United States
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Nostalgia, modernism, and the family ideal -- New occasions teach new duties : Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda -- Reclaiming the home : George H. Maxwell and the homecroft movement -- The political economy of sex : Edward A. Ross and race suicide -- Men as trees walking : Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation of the race -- Fitter families for future firesides : Florence Sherbon and popular eugenics -- American pronatalism.
Abstract:
Through nostalgic idealisations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. This book looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic 'fitter families' campaign, George H. Maxwell's 'homecroft' movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Alsworth Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/9780807868102_lovett
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