Mocking eugenics : American culture against scientific hatred /: American culture against scientific hatred. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ewa Barbara Luczak.
• Authors: Luczak, Ewa Barbara
• Contents: Introduction 1. “I am for the little man”: Charlie Chaplin’s comedies and the eugenic American 2. Is the “strenuous life” a pleasant life? Euthenic efficiency, racial duty, and the phenomenon of Anita Loos 3. Eugenic marriages and psychometrics in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! and The Vegetable 4. Cosmopolitanism vs. eugenic racial nationalism: Ernest Hemingway’s The Torrents of Spring and Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race 5. For “the betterment of the human family”? California sterilizations, Wallace Thurman, and Tomorrow’s Children Conclusions: Could it have happened here? The borderline existence of anti-eugenic satire
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.920973; Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Eugenics in mass media
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000416244; 9781000416237; 9781003172680
• Related ISBNs: 9781032000893
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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