Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century by Molly Ladd-Taylor

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

Molly Ladd-Taylor

304 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Minneso...

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