Lovett, Laura L.

Conceiving the future : pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 / Laura L. Lovett. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Gender and American culture . - Gender & American culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index.

Nostalgia, modernism, and the family ideal -- New occasions teach new duties : Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda -- Reclaiming the home : George H. Maxwell and the homecroft movement -- The political economy of sex : Edward A. Ross and race suicide -- Men as trees walking : Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation of the race -- Fitter families for future firesides : Florence Sherbon and popular eugenics -- American pronatalism.

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Families--History--United States--20th century.
Family size--History--United States--20th century.
Family policy--History--United States--20th century.
Eugenics--History--United States--20th century.
Nostalgia--History--United States--20th century.

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