Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New WomanOxford University Press, 2003 - 250 pages Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science. |
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