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Author Lovett, Laura L.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.
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.
Summary Through nostalgic idealisations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. This book looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic 'fitter families' campaign, George H. Maxwell's 'homecroft' movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Alsworth Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control.
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Subject Families -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Families.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Family size -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Family size.
Family policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Family policy.
Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Eugenics.
Nostalgia -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nostalgia.
Family.
Eugenics -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Reproduction.
Social Change -- history.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Other Form: Print version: Lovett, Laura L. Conceiving the future. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 9780807831076 (DLC) 2006033616 (OCoLC)73742292
ISBN 9780807868102 (electronic book)
0807868108 (electronic book)
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0807831077
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