TY - JOUR
AU - Larson, Edward J.
AB - "In The Finest, Most Womanly Way:" Women In The Southern Eugenics Movement by EDWARD J. LARSON* Introduction Fifteen years ago, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall's Revolt Against Chivalry broke new ground in demonstrating that women played a significant role in Southern politics before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Historians increasingly realized that politics involved more than voting and holding office, and any serious study of political history should examine more than candidates and office holders. A new genera­ tion of scholarship has uncovered a rich history of female involvement in Southern politics, particularly during the Progressive Era, in such diverse areas as child-labor laws, public-health efforts, temperance legislation, education reform, and, of course, suffrage. At the same time, a separate body of scholarship has found an increasingly significant role for woman in the movement for eugenics legislation that swept across America dur­ ing the first third of this century. No one has yet combined the two devel­ opments by looking at the role of women in the Southern eugenics move­ ment, as evidenced by the omission of the topic from William A. Link's 1992 book on Southern progressivism, even though the study generally incorporated recent findings on the role 
TI - “In The Finest, Most Womanly Way:” Women In The Southern Eugenics Movement
JO - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/845898
DA - 1995-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/in-the-finest-most-womanly-way-women-in-the-southern-eugenics-movement-YTKDfTzCyX
SP - 119
EP - 147
VL - 39
IS - 2
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