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Menace to the Future
A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics
Taschenbuch von Jess Whatcott
Sprache: Englisch

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In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining records from state institutions and reform organizations, newspapers, and state hospital museum exhibits. They reveal that state confinement, coercive treatment, care neglect, and forced sterilization were done out of the belief that the perceived unfitness of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people was hereditary and thus posed a biological threat-a so-called menace to the future. Whatcott uncovers a history of disabled resistance to these institutions that predates disability rights movements, builds a genealogy of resistance, and tells a history of eugenics from below. Theorizing how what they call "carceral eugenics" informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century ago, Whatcott shows not only how that same logic still exists in secure treatment facilities, state prisons, and immigration detention centers, but also why it must continue to be resisted.
In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining records from state institutions and reform organizations, newspapers, and state hospital museum exhibits. They reveal that state confinement, coercive treatment, care neglect, and forced sterilization were done out of the belief that the perceived unfitness of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people was hereditary and thus posed a biological threat-a so-called menace to the future. Whatcott uncovers a history of disabled resistance to these institutions that predates disability rights movements, builds a genealogy of resistance, and tells a history of eugenics from below. Theorizing how what they call "carceral eugenics" informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century ago, Whatcott shows not only how that same logic still exists in secure treatment facilities, state prisons, and immigration detention centers, but also why it must continue to be resisted.
Über den Autor
Jess Whatcott is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue. Detention Is Eugenics xiii
Introduction. A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics 1
1. Making the Defective Class 28
2. The Carcerality of Eugenics 58
3. The Political Economy of Carceral Eugenics 85
4. From Maternalist Care to Anti-eugenics 119
5. Menacing the Present 147
Epilogue. Abolishing Carceral Eugenics 173
Notes 179
Bibliography 203
Index 219
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781478030751
ISBN-10: 1478030755
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Whatcott, Jess
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Jess Whatcott
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,405 kg
Artikel-ID: 128084834
Über den Autor
Jess Whatcott is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue. Detention Is Eugenics xiii
Introduction. A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics 1
1. Making the Defective Class 28
2. The Carcerality of Eugenics 58
3. The Political Economy of Carceral Eugenics 85
4. From Maternalist Care to Anti-eugenics 119
5. Menacing the Present 147
Epilogue. Abolishing Carceral Eugenics 173
Notes 179
Bibliography 203
Index 219
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781478030751
ISBN-10: 1478030755
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Whatcott, Jess
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Jess Whatcott
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,405 kg
Artikel-ID: 128084834
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