Eugenics in the community : the United Farm Women of Alberta, public health nursing, teaching, social work, and sexual sterilization in Alberta, 1928-1972

Eugenics in the community : the United Farm Women of Alberta, public health nursing, teaching, social work, and sexual sterilization in Alberta, 1928-1972

This dissertation examines the historical relationship between eugenics, the United Farm Women of Alberta (UFWA), and the gendered professions of teaching, public health nursing, and social work in Alberta. In the wake of the Leilani Muir trial, scholarship on Alberta’s Sexual Sterilization Act (192...

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Other Authors: Dyck, Erika
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
eugenics
public health
professionalization
maternalism
feminism
UFWA
nursing
teaching
social work
Alberta
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-12-1975

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http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-12-1975

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