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Author:

Hansen, Randall.

Title:

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.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 303 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

King, Desmond S.

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.

ISBN:

1107659701 (paperback)
9781107659704 (paperback)
110703292X
9781107032927

OCLC:

(OCoLC)843010344

LCCN:

2013015860

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)