The "Girl Suicide Epidemic" of the 1910s: Pain and Prejudice in US Newspapers.
Reading the medicalization of US immigration policy in tandem with the feminization and juvenation of suicide in early twentieth-century newspapers, I argue that US exceptionalism sits on a perdurable and widespread embrace of eugenics ideals, traceable to the years around World War I. Cast by journ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Women's History Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 1 - 27 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2022
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