ISBN:
082141691X
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0821416928
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9780821416914
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9780821416921
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
X, 406 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
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24 cm
Paralleltitel:
Online-Ausg. Currell, Susan Popular Eugenics
DDC:
363.92097309043
Schlagwort(e):
Eugenics History 20th century
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Eugenics Social aspects
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Popular culture History 20th century
;
Eugenics in literature
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Eugenics in motion pictures
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USA
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Massenkultur
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Eugenik
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Geschichte 1921-1943
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Eugenics United States
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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
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United States History
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1919-1933
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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USA
;
Massenkultur
;
Eugenik
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Geschichte 1921-1943
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction / Susan Currell -- A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline -- Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell -- "Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani -- "Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis -- Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies -- Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender -- The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey -- Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell -- Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter -- Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper -- Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely -- Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith -- The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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