UID:
almafu_9959235253002883
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-88-9313-133-8
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1-4696-0472-8
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0-8078-6810-8
Series Statement:
Gender and American culture
Content:
Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls ""nostalgic modernism,"" which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eug
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-5803-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3107-7
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=880274
