Erika Dyck

Facing Eugenics

Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781442644168
• ISBN-10: 1442644168
• Artikelnr.: 37055526

Autorenporträt

Erika Dyck is Canada Research Chair in History of Medicine and an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Images
Introduction
Chapter 1: Vagrancy, Violence and Virtue: Nora Powers
Chapter 2: Race, Consent and Protection: George Pierre
Chapter 3: Sterilization Redefined: Violet and Irene
Chapter 4: Vasectomy, Masculinity and Hyperactivity: Ken Nelson
Chapter 5: From Sterilization to Patient Activism: Doreen Ella Befus
Chapter 6: Appendectomy to Queen’s Court Settlement: Leilani Muir
Chapter 7: Abortion, Sterilization and the Eugenics Legacy: Jane Doe
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Bibliography