1-5 of 5 Search Results for

anti-eugenics

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Published: 09 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059745-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5974-5
..., to disappear those labelled as dysgenic, and to obliterate the other possible futures that disabled and queerly bodied people could have created. This chapter works toward a history of anti-eugenics that comes from everyday acts of refusal, decades before a politically organized disability rights movement...
Book Chapter

By Jess Whatcott
Published: 09 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5974-5
... maternalism Charlotte Perkins Gilman refusal anti-eugenics ...
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027546-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2754-6
... by an anxious public due to concerns over their ability to police white women in a respectful way. Informed by racial science, early eugenics, and anti-vice and corruption investigations of the era, NYPD commissioner Theodore Roosevelt articulated a scientific vision of a hierarchy of races based on how well...
Published: 09 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059745-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5974-5
.... This fantasy of humanitarian incarceration is undermined by endemic medical neglect and forms of death dealing that reproduce the logic of eugenics in a variety of carceral settings. There is hope for an anti-eugenicist future in recent closures of youth prisons, yet abolitionists also face new carceral forms...
Published: 04 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027157-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2715-7
... The ethnographic interludes before and after chapter 3 cross the reader temporally and spatially as Faul examines how gynecology, both sociohistorically and in the present, is an imperialist, colonial, and modern contact zone. These slices of sociomedical history through slavery eugenics...