Desmond King, Randall Hansen

Sterilized by the State

Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781107032927
• ISBN-10: 110703292X
• Artikelnr.: 39219353

Autorenporträt

Randall Hansen is Director of the Centre for European Russian and Eurasian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Hansen has served as Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Merton College, Oxford, and has held a Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford. He is author of Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany 1942-44 (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award) and Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after July 20, 1944.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Introduction: coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods
2. The eugenicists: short portraits
3. Eugenic anxieties
4. Homes for the feebleminded
5. The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization before the Second World War
6. Buck v. Bell and beyond
7. Sterilization thwarted
Part II: 8. Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany
9. Revival and recovery: eugenics in new clothes
10. Eugenics and world population growth
Part III: 11. The sterilized: voices from Alberta and Oregon
12. Postwar sterilization: institutions and abuse
13. Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization
14. Those who sterilized
15. Conclusion: a century of coerced sterilization.