Popular eugenics: national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s

Introduction / Susan Currell

A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline

Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell

"Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani

"Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis

Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies

Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender

The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner

The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey

Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell

Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter

Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper

Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely

Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith

The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent.