Popular eugenics: national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s

Abstract

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Susan Currell -- Pt. 1. Popular writing and eugenics -- Ch. 1. A new deal for the child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline -- Ch. 2. Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell -- Ch. 3. "Drilling eugenics into people's minds": expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the Unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani -- Ch. 4. Explaining sexual life to your daughter": gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis -- Ch. 5. Defending Jeeter: conservative arguments against eugenics in the depression era South / Betsy L. Nies -- Ch. 6. Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project: the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender -- Ch. 7. The descent of Yoknapatawpha: eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- Ch. 8. The American Adonis: a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-1932 / Mary K. Coffey -- Ch. 9. Smooth flow: biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell -- Ch. 10. Apes, men, and teeth: Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter -- Ch. 11. Classical bodies versus criminal carnival: eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper -- Ch. 12. Scientific selection on the silver screen: madcap eugenics in College Holiday / Karen A. Keely -- Ch. 13. Monsters in the bed: the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith -- Ch. 14. The Naxi Eugenics Exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent -- About the contributors -- Index

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