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Author:

Lovett, Laura L.

Title:

Conceiving the future : pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 / Laura L. Lovett.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Family--United States--History--20th century.
Family size--United States--History--20th century.
Family policy--United States--History--20th century.
Eugenics--United States--History--20th century.
Nostalgia--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index.

Contents:

Nostalgia, modernism, and the family ideal -- New occasions teach new duties : Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda -- Reclaiming the home : George H. Maxwell and the homecroft movement -- The political economy of sex : Edward A. Ross and race suicide -- Men as trees walking : Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation of the race -- Fitter families for future firesides : Florence Sherbon and popular eugenics -- American pronatalism.

Series:

Gender and American culture

ISBN:

080785803X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807858035 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807831077 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807831076 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)73742292

LCCN:

2006033616

Locations:

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

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)