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Sterilized by the state, eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America, Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

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Label

Sterilized by the state, eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America, Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sterilized by the state

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

881236920

Responsibility statement

Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America

Summary

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents, this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and shows that both eugenic arguments and committed eugenicists informed population, welfare, and birth control policy in postwar America. In providing revisionist histories of the choice movement, the anti-population growth movement, and the Great Society programs, this book contributes to public policy and political and intellectual history.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization 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 -- Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization

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