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The Aggressive Mutation of Post-War Eugenics

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurJune 25, 20111 Comment

June 25, 2011 A weird thing happened in the years right after World War II: new college-level biology textbooks, rather than dropping the subject of eugenics, doubled down and began to defend the ideology with more aggressive rhetoric and moments of near-pornographic spectacle. Biology: And Its Relation to Mankind by Baylor graduate and Stetson University…

Adventure! Domination! Biology!

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurOctober 6, 2009

October 6, 2009 These images both depict ceremonially scarred women, face on, naked at least to the waist. The one on the left is from a popular college textbook from the 1940s. The one on the right is from a Men’s Adventure magazine, otherwise known as a “sweat” or “armpit” pulp, from the 1950s. In…

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