{"product_id":"eugenic-nation-9780520285064","title":"Eugenic Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This book includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues to inform institutional and reproductive injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...a fascinating and mutifaceted contribution to twentieth-century American history.\" * Social History *\u003cbr\u003e\"...a rich narrative of the social, political, and scientific life of the nation, a narrative in which gender and race are central to understanding America's continuing fascination with better breeding.\"  * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stern meticulously demonstrates the extent to which California eugenics was simultaneously distinct from eugenics in other states and also a major force in the national movement.\"  * American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"...Stern has made a significant contribution to the historical record of eugenics.\"   * Isis *\u003cbr\u003e\"With Eugenic Nation Alexandra Stern has refocused the geographical and chronological lens generally used to examine hereditarian impulses in American history. The result is a fascinating and essential contribution to the scholarship on American eugenics.\"  * Journal of the History of Biology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stern's discussion of eugenics and the family are of particular interest to those debating the relationship between biology and gender. . . . [and] it does provide material for a more nuanced discussion of how sociologists should proceed in the era of the human genome.\" * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Eugenic Nation stunningly traces the cultural continuities in 'better breeding' that refuse to stay in the past.\" * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Preface to the Second Edition  Abbreviations   Introduction  1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco  2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the US-Mexican Border  3. Instituting Eugenics in California  4. \"I Like to Keep My Body Whole\": Reconsidering Eugenic Sterilization in California  5. California's Eugenic Landscapes  6. Centering Eugenics on the Family  7. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s  Conclusion   Notes  Bibliography  Acknowledgments  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864897892695,"sku":"9780520285064","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520285064.jpg?v=1722273270","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eugenic-nation-9780520285064","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}