Building A Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (2001)
Kline, Wendy (Author)
University of California Press
Physical Details: xv + 218 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index
Language: English
Description Shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality during the first half of the twentieth century.
Review Allen, Garland E. (2005) Review of "Building A Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 153).
Review Fangerau, Heiner (2006) Review of "Building A Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 105).
Review Thomson, Mathew (2003) Review of "Building A Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom". Social History of Medicine (p. 314).
Review Carlson, Elof Axel (2003) Review of "Building A Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences.
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