Eugenics at the edges of empire : New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa /: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse, Hamish G. Spencer.
• Editors: Paul, Diane B, 1946-; Stenhouse, John; Spencer, Hamish G
• Contents: 1. Introduction, Eugenics as a Transnational Subject: The British Dominions; Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse and Hamish G. Spencer.- 2. 'The Liberty of the Nation': The Limits of Illiberalism: Eugenics in Australia and New Zealand; Stephen Garton.- 3. Eugenics in Canada:Choice, Coercion and Context; Erika Dyck.- 4. The Nature of Eugenic Thought and Limits of Eugenic Practice in Inter-War Saskatchewan; Alexander Deighton.- 5. Eugenic Sterilization in New Zealand: The Story of the Mental Defectives Amendment Act of 1928; Hamish G. Spencer.- 6. Debating Clause 21: 'Eugenic Marriage' in New Zealand; Angela Wanhalla.- 7. Undesirable Bill's Undesirables Bill: William Pember Reeves and Early Eugenics in New Zealand; John Stenhouse.- 8. Thinking Dangerous Thoughts: Post-primary Education and Eugenics in Australia: 1905-1939; Ross L. Jones.- 9. 'Of Eugenic Interest'? Baby Shows before the Great War; Caroline Daley.- 10. Sir Robert Stout as Freethinker and Eugenics Enthusiast; Emma Gattey.- 11. Revisiting Three Eugenic Moments: 1903, 1928, 1937: The Disappointments and Hopes of Antipodean Progressives; Charlotte Macdonald.- 12. Truby King, Infant Welfare, and the Boundaries of Eugenics; Diane B. Paul.- 13. 'Aristocrats of Knowledge': Māori Anthropologists and the Survival of the 'Race'; Barbara Brookes.- 14. Eugenics and the Maintenance of White Supremacy in Modern South Africa; Susanne M. Klausen.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 363.9209171241; Eugenics -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319646862
• Related ISBNs: 9783319646855
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