Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America /

Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America /

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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...

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Main Authors: Hansen, Randall (Author), King, Desmond S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Eugenics > United States > History > 20th century.
Eugenics > Canada > History > 20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control) > United States > History > 20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control) > Canada > History > 20th century.
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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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