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020 $a9781421423722$q(hardcover ;$qalk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)973498932
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050 00 $aHV4989$b.L24 2017
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100 1 $aLadd-Taylor, Molly,$d1955-$eauthor.
245 10 $aFixing the poor :$beugenic sterilization and child welfare in the twentieth century /$cMolly Ladd-Taylor.
264 1 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2017.
300 $aix, 275 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe feebleminded menace and the innocent child -- Two roads to sterilization -- Who was feebleminded? -- The price of freedom -- Sterilization and welfare in depression and war -- From fixing the poor to fixing the system?
520 8 $aBetween 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary and administered within a progressive child welfare system.Tracing Minnesota's eugenics program from its conceptual origins in the 1880s to its official end in the 1970s, Ladd-Taylor argues that state sterilization policies reflected a wider variety of worldviews and political agendas than previously understood. She describes how, after 1920, people endorsed sterilization and its alternative, institutionalization, as the best way to aid dependent children without helping the "undeserving" poor. She also sheds new light on how the policy gained acceptance and why coerced sterilizations persisted long after eugenics lost its prestige. In Ladd-Taylor's provocative study, eugenic sterilization appears less like a deliberate effort to improve the gene pool than a complicated but sadly familiar tale of troubled families, fiscal and administrative politics, and deep-felt cultural attitudes about disability, dependency, sexuality, and gender. Drawing on institutional and medical records, court cases, newspapers, and professional journals, Ladd-Taylor reconstructs the tragic stories of the welfare-dependent, sexually delinquent, and disabled people who were labeled feebleminded and targeted for sterilization.
650 0 $aInvoluntary sterilization$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSterilization (Birth control)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEugenics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMentally ill$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$y20th century.
650 0 $aPoor$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$y20th century.
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