TY - BOOK ID - 137510651 TI - Anarchism and eugenics PY - 2019 SN - 1526124491 1526146665 1526124475 9781526146663 9781526124470 9781526124494 1526124467 9781526124463 PB - Manchester [UK] DB - UniCat KW - Anarchism KW - Eugenics KW - Anarchism. KW - History KW - eugenics. KW - neo-Malthusianism. KW - science. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137510651 AB - At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a means of 'race' survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements? ER -