Screen LibrarySterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America /
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 303 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781107659704 (paperback) : 1107659701 (paperback) 9781107032927 110703292X |
| Index Number: | HQ755 |
| CLC: | C923-097.1 |
| Call Number: | C923-097.1/H249 |
| Contents: | Coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists: short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization policy before the Second World War -- Buck v. bell and beyond -- Sterilization thwarted -- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany -- Revival and recovery: eugenics in new clothes -- Eugenics and world population growth -- The sterilized: voices from Alberta and Oregon -- Postwar sterilization: institutions and abuse -- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization -- Those who sterilized -- A century of coerced sterilization. |