Fixing the poor : eugenic sterilization and child welfare in the twentieth century

Fixing the poor : eugenic sterilization and child welfare in the twentieth century /

Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntar...

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Main Author: Ladd-Taylor, Molly, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Involuntary sterilization > United States > History > 20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control) > United States > History > 20th century.
Eugenics > United States > History > 20th century.
Mentally ill > Government policy > United States > 20th century.
Poor > Government policy > United States > 20th century.
Sterilization, Involuntary > history.
Mentally Disabled Persons > history.
Intellectual Disability > history.
Eugenics > history.
Vulnerable Populations.
Human Rights Abuses > history.
History, 20th Century.
Eugenics.
Involuntary sterilization.
Mentally ill > Government policy.
Poor > Government policy.
Sterilization (Birth control)
Sexual sterilization.
Mentally ill.
Poor.
Minnesota.
United States.
History.

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