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Evangelizing EUGENICS: A Memetic Appraisal of Eugenics Education in the Interwar-era, and the Legacy of Eugenics and Race-Hygiene Today and Tomorrow
DownloadFall 2018
This dissertation explores the Interwar-era eugenics movements in America and Britain, focusing on efforts to educate insiders and professionals, but especially to evangelize novices. Two primary historical sources are examined in detail: the largely British To-day and To-morrow book series...
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From Eugenics to Paralympics: Inspirational Disability, Physical Fitness, and the White Canadian Nation
DownloadSpring 2015
Inspirational representations of athletic disability are ubiquitous in contemporary Western culture, and are often considered uplifting for disabled and non-disabled audiences alike (Berger, 2008; Kama, 2004; Silva & Howe, 2012). Critical disability scholars have argued, by contrast, that such...
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Fall 2013
Francis Galton is a Victorian cyborg. I stalk him in his move from nineteenth-century eugenicist to the computerized construct of my twenty-first-century blinking screen. Using a combination of storytelling and argument—in order to maintain a constant critical engagement with my own knowledge...
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Supplemental Image File for Chapter IV and Appendix IV of "Evangelizing Eugenics" (PhD Dissertation)
Download2018-09-17
This dissertation explores the Interwar-era eugenics movements in America and Britain, focusing on efforts to educate insiders and professionals, but especially to evangelize novices. Two primary historical sources are examined in detail: the largely British To-day and To-morrow book series...
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The Never-Ending Story: The Lengthy History of Sterilization Surgery in Alberta and California
DownloadSpring 2012
This study examines sterilization surgery in Alberta and California throughout the 20th century. There has been no comparative study of these two places, which were both actively involved in the eugenics movement. During the 44 years that the Alberta Sterilization Act was in place, over 2800 men,...