Society's Biological Entrapment: Maternity, Eugenics, and Violence in 1920's American Literature and Film
This dissertation examines how American writers in the 1920s demonstrated the eugenic influence on motherhood through fictional representations of violent resistance. My project charts the ways in which fictional, dramatic, and cinematic texts displayed negative visualizations of maternity as a resp...
Main Author: | Jordan, Jerrica |
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Format: | Others |
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OpenSIUC
2017
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Online Access: | https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1364 https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2368&context=dissertations |
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