Anarchism and eugenics : an unlikely convergence, 1890-1940 /
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 o...
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Manchester [UK] :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Contemporary anarchist studies (Manchester, England)
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Table of Contents:
- The 'paradox' of anarchism and eugenics
- Science, revolution and progress : the constitutive terrain of anarchist eugenics
- Early discourse on eugenics within transnational anarchism, 1890-1920
- From neo-Malthusianism to eugenics as a 'revolutionary conquest', 1920-1937
- Conclusion : anarchism, governmentality, eugenics.