Randall Hansen

Sterilized by the State (eBook, PDF)

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107439771
• Artikelnr.: 39997683

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.