Eugenic design : streamlining America in the 1930s /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cogdell, Christina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2004]
Subjects:	Eugenics > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Design > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Aerodynamics > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Industrial design > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Genetics > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Civilization > 1918-1945. United States > Race relations. Racism > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.

Table of Contents:

Controlling evolution
Products or bodies? : streamline design and eugenics as applied biology
Progenitors of the future : popularizing streamlining and eugenics during the 1930s
"Flow is the word" : biological efficiency and streamline design
Race hygiene, product hygiene : curing disease through sterilization
Future perfect? : the elusive "ideal type"
Pseudoscience? Pseudostyle?