As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenics theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of the "in…
As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenics theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of the "in…
by Project Muse, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Long out of print, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Cr…
A 1911 "problem novel " about eugenics, by the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper."
The ever-growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation-states, while Georgescu asks why an ethnic minority, the German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in inter-war Romania. The Eugenic Fortress e…
