Synopses & Reviews
"A richly detailed, well-organized, and thoroughly researched narrative analyzing how perceptions about rural America, gender, race, and the family shaped pronatalist public policy around the turn of the twentieth century."
-- New England Quarterly "A useful complement to recent studies. . . . Contributes significantly to the further unraveling of . . . tenuous and slippery connections."
The Journal of American History "Readers of this imaginative book will see many issues in a fresh light. They may be inspired to think in new ways about the connections between Americans' environmentalism, their celebration of the family, and their anxieties about women's roles outside the home."
-- Kansas History "A thoughtful and probing book that backdates the emergence of pronationalism in the United States to the late nineteenth century and exposes intersections of nostalgia, eugenics, motherhood, and the idealization of the white frontier family from the 1890s to the 1930s. . . . A nicely textured analysis."
ISIS Lovett's finely grained and well-researched case studies represent the best of a new turn to intellectual portraiture.
Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
Review
Lovett's finely grained and well-researched case studies represent the best of a new turn to intellectual portraiture.
Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
Review
"A useful complement to recent studies. . . . Contributes significantly to the further unraveling of . . . tenuous and slippery connections."
The Journal of American History
Review
"A richly detailed, well-organized, and thoroughly researched narrative analyzing how perceptions about rural America, gender, race, and the family shaped pronatalist public policy around the turn of the twentieth century."
-- New England Quarterly
Review
"Readers of this imaginative book will see many issues in a fresh light. They may be inspired to think in new ways about the connections between Americans' environmentalism, their celebration of the family, and their anxieties about women's roles outside the home."
-- Kansas History
Review
"A thoughtful and probing book that backdates the emergence of pronationalism in the United States to the late nineteenth century and exposes intersections of nostalgia, eugenics, motherhood, and the idealization of the white frontier family from the 1890s to the 1930s. . . . A nicely textured analysis."
ISIS
Synopsis
Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, argues Laura Lovett, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction.
Synopsis
Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, argues Laura Lovett, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged fro
About the Author
Laura Lovett is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.