Growing a Race: Nellie L. Mcclung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism

Growing a Race: Nellie L. Mcclung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism

Author
Cecily Devereux
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Language
English
Edition
1
Year
2006
Page
185
ISBN
9780773573048,9780773529373
File Type
pdf
File Size
8.4 MiB

Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure."

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