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Author Cogdell, Christina.

Title Eugenic design : streamlining America in the 1930s / Christina Cogdell.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  HQ755.5.U5 C64 2004    Available  ---
Description xvii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index.
Contents Controlling evolution -- Products or bodies? : streamline design and eugenics as applied biology -- Progenitors of the future : popularizing streamlining and eugenics during the 1930s -- "Flow is the word" : biological efficiency and streamline design -- Race hygiene, product hygiene : curing disease through sterilization -- Future perfect? : the elusive "ideal type" -- Pseudoscience? Pseudostyle?
Subject Eugenics -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Eugenics -- Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Eugenics.
Design -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Design -- Social aspects.
Design.
Aerodynamics -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Aerodynamics.
Social aspects.
Industrial design -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial design -- Social aspects.
Genetics -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genetics -- Social aspects.
United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 1918-1945
Subject United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Racism.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1933-1945
Subject Eugénisme -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Design -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Aérodynamique -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 1918-1945.
États-Unis -- Relations raciales.
États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 1933-1945.
Racism.
ISBN 0812238249 cloth alkaline paper