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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender & American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.Description: xi, 236 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.850973/0904 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ535 .L68 2007eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index.

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.

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