Eugenics, Race and Canada’s First-Wave Feminists: Dis/Abling the Debates

Abstract Using government reports produced by one of Ontario’s pioneering women physicians and leading eugenic crusaders, Dr. Helen MacMurchy, this article interrogates the significance of disability as a central paradigm within first-wave feminism and its promotion of eugenic reforms. I examine ho...

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Main Author: Lykke de la Cour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mount Saint Vincent University 2017-12-01
Series:Atlantis
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Online Access:https://140.230.24.104/index.php/atlantis/article/view/5302
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