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En 1756, l'Essai sur la manière de perfectionner l'espèce humaine transforme le manuel de procréation à destination des futurs époux en traité d'eugénisme moderne. Son auteur, Charles-Auguste Vandermonde, développe jusqu'à ses ultimes conséquences une idée avancée en passant par Maupertuis, une dizaine d'années auparavant : pourquoi ne pas recourir aux croisements pour améliorer l'espèce humaine, à l'instar des éleveurs ? Il ne s'agit plus simplement de produire de beaux rejetons, mais de donner à la nation les moyens de se contrôler et de se parfaire. Parue un siècle avant l'avènement de l'eugénisme galtonien, cette œuvre dévoile les liens inquiétants entre les prémices de l'idéologie eugénique et le philanthropisme des Lumières.

Hygiene --- Human reproduction --- Eugenics --- Women --- Infants

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Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood.

Romanticism. --- Heredity, Human. --- Breeding in literature. --- Biology in literature. --- Heredity in humans --- Eugenics --- Human beings --- Prenatal influences --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Constitution

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The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public’s self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration.Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines “sites of memory” as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented.In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe.

Euthanasia. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Slovenes --- Croats --- Crimes against --- History --- Cultural Memory. --- Disability. --- Eugenics. --- Fascism. --- Grafeneck. --- Holocaust. --- Memorials. --- Nazi Euthanasia. --- Perpetrators. --- Trieste.

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Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate." The sterilization of the feeble-minded in Alberta and British Columbia was merely the most dramatic attempt to limit the numbers of the "unfit." But in the decades prior to World War Two, eugenic preoccupations were to colour discussions of immigration restriction, birth control, mental testing, family allowances, and a host of similar social policies. Doctors, psychiatrists, geneticists, social workers, and mental hygienists provided an anxious Canadian middle class with the reassuring argument that poverty, crime, prostitution, and mental retardation were primarily the products of defective genes, not a defective social system. In explaining why biological solutions were sought for social problems McLaren not only provides a provocative reappraisal of the ideas and activities of a generation of feminists, political progressives, and public health propagandists but he also explores some of the roots of our not-so-latent racist tendencies.

Eugenics --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- History --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Social policy --- Demography --- Political parties --- Human rights --- Family law. Inheritance law --- Social organizations --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Human genetics --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- Eugenics --- Feminism --- Contraception --- Healthcare --- Organizations --- Reproductive rights --- Social movements --- Book --- Activism --- Women's rights --- Stopes, Marie --- United Kingdom