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Alexandra Minna Stern is Professor of American Culture, Obstetrics and Gynecology, History, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.
Eugenic Nation stunningly traces the cultural continuities in 'better breeding' that refuse to stay in the past. * Western Historical Quarterly * Stern's discussion of eugenics and the family are of particular interest to those debating the relationship between biology and gender. . . . [and] it does provide material for a more nuanced discussion of how sociologists should proceed in the era of the human genome. * American Journal of Sociology * With Eugenic Nation Alexandra Stern has refocused the geographical and chronological lens generally used to examine hereditarian impulses in American history. The result is a fascinating and essential contribution to the scholarship on American eugenics. * Journal of the History of Biology * ...Stern has made a significant contribution to the historical record of eugenics. * Isis * Stern meticulously demonstrates the extent to which California eugenics was simultaneously distinct from eugenics in other states and also a major force in the national movement. * American Studies * ...a rich narrative of the social, political, and scientific life of the nation, a narrative in which gender and race are central to understanding America's continuing fascination with better breeding. * American Historical Review * ...a fascinating and mutifaceted contribution to twentieth-century American history. * Social History *
