Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman by Angelique Richardson

Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman

Angelique Richardson

272 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction science sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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The idea of eugenics--human selective breeding--originated in Victorian Britain in response to the urban poor. Darwin's evolutionary theory had laid the foundations for eugenics, replacing paradise with primordial slime. Man had not fallen from Gr...

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