Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France

by William H. Schneider

Book Overview

This book examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France showed a growing interest in natalist, neo-Lamarckian, social hygiene, racist, and other biologically-based movements as a response to the perception that French society was in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052152461X
• ISBN13: 9780521524612
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"