TY - BOOK ID - 77885712 TI - Growing a race PY - 2005 SN - 128352998X 9786613842435 0773573046 9780773573048 0773529373 9780773529373 6613842435 PB - Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Eugenics in literature. KW - Feminism in literature. KW - British KW - British people KW - Britishers KW - Britons (British) KW - Brits KW - Ethnology KW - Feminist theory in literature KW - Social aspects. KW - McClung, Nellie L., KW - McClung, Nellie Letitia Mooney, KW - Mooney, Nellie Letitia, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885712 AB - Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure." ER -