Transforming the Race-mother: Motherhood and Eugenics in British Modernism
This project argues that British modernism was directly informed by the theories of eugenic race-regeneration that gained popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. In particular, the central figure of the eugenic mother, or race-mother, influenced the portraya...
Main Author: | Harbin, Persephone Emily |
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Other Authors: | Roy Gottfried |
Format: | Others |
Language: | en |
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VANDERBILT
2008
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Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-07222008-123454/ |
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