Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century

by Molly Ladd-Taylor

Book Overview

Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary and administered within a progressive child welfare system.

Tracing Minnesota's eugenics program from its conceptual origins in the 1880s to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421437996
• ISBN13: 9781421437996
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"