Popular eugenics: national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VU
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
Introduction i
Susan Currell
PART ONE: POPULAR WRITING AND EUGENICS
1. A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in
the 1930s 17
Wendy Kline
2. Eugenic Decline and Recovery in Self-Improvement Literature of
the Thirties 44
Susan Currell
3. Drilling Eugenics into People s Minds : Expertise, Public Opinion,
and Biopolitics in Alexis Carrel s Man, the Unknown 70
Andres H. Reggiani
4. Explaining Sexual Life to Your Daughter : Gender and Eugenic
Education in the United States during the 1930s 91
Michael A. Rembis
5. Defending Jeeter: Conservative Arguments against Eugenics in
the Depression Era South 120
Betsy L. Nies
6. Poor Whites and the Federal Writers Project: The Rhetoric of
Eugenics in the Southern Life Histories 140
Stephen Fender
7. The Descent of Yoknapatawpha: Eugenics and the Origins of
Faulkner s World 164
Barbara E. Ladner
Contents
PART TWO: VISUAL CULTURE AND EUGENICS
8. The American Adonis: A Natural History of the Average American
(Man), 1921-32 185
Mary K. Coffey
9. Smooth Flow: Biological Efficiency and Streamline Design 217
Christina Cogdell
10. Apes, Men, and Teeth: Earnest A. Hooton and Eugenic Decay 249
Nicole Rafter
n. Classical Bodies versus the Criminal Carnival: Eugenics Ideology
in 1930s Popular Art 269
Kerry Soper
12. Scientific Selection on the Silver Screen: Madcap Eugenics in
College Holiday 308
Karen A. Keely
13. Monsters in the Bed: The Horror-Film Eugenics of Dracula and
Frankenstein 332
Angela Marie Smith
14. The Nazi Eugenics Exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 359
Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 385
INDEX 389
ILLUSTRATIONS
2.1. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bernarr Macfadden in Warm Springs,
Georgia, 1931 48
8.1. The Average American Male by Jane Davenport, 1921 187
8.2. Our Face from Fish to Man, 1932 191
8.3. Man among the Primates, 1932 193
8.4. Monument to the Civil War Soldier, Lebanon, New Hampshire 195
8.5. What Eugenics Is All About 203
8.6. How Families, Communities, Races, and Nations May Change
Greatly in Capacity within a Few Generations 204
8.7. One Branch of the Ishmael Family 205
8.8. The Roosevelt Family-Stock 205
9.1. Laxative advertisement for Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.,
1937 219
9.2. Some People Are Born to Be a Burden on the Rest 221
9.3. Colon X-rays, in John Harvey Kellogg, Itinerary of a Breakfast 223
9.4. Norman Bel Geddes, Diagram Illustrating the Principle of
Streamlining 225
9.5. Norman Bel Geddes s copy of Ettie A. Hornibrook s Restoration
Exercises for Women 229
9.6. Criterion Closet, ca. 1936 232
9.7. Radiator hood ornament for the Lincoln Zephyr Continental and
Custom 239
9.8. Are You a Human Thoroughbred? 241
10.1. Their Master s Voice 259
10.2. Mother Love May Survive, but Mother s Milk Has Vanished 260
10.3. Going to School, 1900-1939 263
ii.i. Drawing of a Lombrosian criminal type from the 1880s 273
Illustrations
11.2. Elmer Rising, Dinaric Criminal Types 279
11.3. Earnest A. Hooton, Offense Rankings of Racial Types: Sex 280
11.4. Earnest A. Hooton, Offense Rankings of Insane Criminals:
Sex 281
11.5. Bauer and Black display at the Chicago World s Fair, 1933 284
11.6. Promotional poster, Chicago World s Fair, 1933 286
11.7. The Thrill House of Crime on the Midway of the Chicago World s
Exposition, 1933 288
11.8. From Dick Tracy: Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart 294
11.9. From Dick Tracy: Stooge Viller seducing Tess Trueheart 295
11.10. Nazi propaganda from the mid-i93os 295
11.11. From Dick Tracy: Pat Patton calling Tess Trueheart 297
11.12. From Dick Tracy: Early-i93os ethnically coded criminal types 298
11.13. From Dick Tracy: Post-i93os more complex and bizarre gallery
of villains 299
11.14. From Dick Tracy: Baby Waldorf kidnapping story resolution 300
11.15. From Dick Tracy: The death of the villain Stud Bronzen 301
11.16. From Dick Tracy: Flattop 303
12.1. Publicity Still from College Holiday, showing Calliope Dove 313
12.2. Publicity Still from College Holiday, showing Daisy Schloggen-
heimer 324
14.1. Photo of installation at Deutsche Volk-Deutsche Arbeit, Berlin,
1934 367
14.2. Installation and Viewers at the Eugenics in New Germany Ex-
hibit, Pasadena, 1934 368
14.3. Panel included in the Eugenics in New Germany exhibition:
Germany was proud of having the best lunatic asylums 369
14.4. Panel included in the Eugenics in New Germany exhibition: If
this man had been sterilised 371
14.5. Panel included in the Eugenics in New Germany exhibition: The
local law dealing with questions of population in Berlin 373
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