Molly Ladd-Taylor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 292756 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Molly Ladd-Taylor |
| PRENOMES | Molly |
| SOBRENOME | Ladd-Taylor |
| ASSINATURA | LADD-TAYLOR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | York University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Fixing the Poor
Ravished by Some Moron”
Twenty U.S. states permit the indefinite detention of civilly committed sex offenders after the end of their prison sentences if their dangerousness is due to a “mental abnormality.” This article explores the origins of one such law by examining its predecessor, the Minnesota Psychopathic Personality Act of 1939. Passed in the wake of a panic over sex crimes and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1940, Minnesota’s psychopath statute extended a 1917 e…
S tephanie W elch , director. A Dangerous Idea
A Dangerous Idea is a lively call to arms against genetic determinism and its role in the resurgence of racism and inequality in the Trump era. Stephanie Welch’s fast-moving documentary uses video clips and expert interviews to demonstrate that the American Dream is being put at risk by the “dangerous idea” that some individuals and races are inherently superior to others. Welch argues that from the Gilded Age until today, the junk sciences of eu…
Imperfect Pregnancies
Reviewed by: Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis by Ilana Löwy Molly Ladd-Taylor Ilana Löwy. Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 296 pp. $44.95 (978-1-4214-2363-0). In Imperfect Pregnancies, Ilana Löwy applies the nuanced approach of her previous work on cancer to birth defects and prenatal diagnosis. Löwy’s analysis of pren…
Imbeciles
Choice and Coercion
Reviewed by: Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare Molly Ladd-Taylor Johanna Schoen . Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xv + 331 pp. Ill. $59.95 (cloth, 0-8078-2919-6), $19.95 (paperbound, 0-8078-5585-5). This important book on reproduction and U.S. s…
Women, Health, and Nation
Authors provide a much-needed analysis of the dynamic decades after 1945, when both Canada and the United States began using federal funds to expand health-care access, and biomedical research and authority reached new heights. Focusing on a wide range of issues - including childbirth, abortion and sterilization, palliative care, pharmaceutical regulation, immigration, and Native health care - these essays illuminate the ironic promise of biomedi…
Breeding Better Vermonters
Journal Article Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. By Nancy L. Gallagher. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999. xvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87451-951-9. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-87451-952-7.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, York Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, Se…
Raising Baby by the Book
Journal Article Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers. By Julia Grant. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. x, 309 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07214-7.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 279–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567506 Published: 01 Ju…
The Selfless and the Helpless
"Bad" mothers
Sex, Race, and Science
This study explores the theory and practice of eugenics in the American South. The author shows how the quest for strong bloodlines expressed itelf in state laws and public policies, many of which remain controversial to the present day - such as state control over sexuality and reproduction, the rights of disabled people and of ethnic minorities, and legal questions raised by new discoveries in genetics and medicine. The book describes how the s…
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State
Mother-Work
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
Mother-Work
Made to Play House
Journal Article Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830–1930. By Miriam Formanek-Brunell. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xiv, 233 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-05072-0.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, North York, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1708–1709, http…
Mother-Work
Journal Article Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890–1930. By Molly Ladd-Taylor. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. x, 211 pp. $39-95, ISBN 0-252-02044-8.) Get access Beverly Stadum Beverly Stadum St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082056 P…
Improving Poor People
Journal Article Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 179 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-691-02994-6.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1256, https://…
Mother-Work
Settlement Folk
Mina Carson deftly merges social and intellectual history to reconsider the settlement movement its Anglo-American roots and evolution, its conflicts and accomplishments. Carson focuses her study on the careers and ideas of settlement founders and leaders, among them Jane Addams, Robert Woods, Mary Simkhovitch, Lillian Wald, and Graham Taylor. She demonstrates how these influential, often charismatic leaders appropriated and adapted certain Victo…
Working Women of Collar City
Raising a Baby the Government Way
Brought to Bed
Women Workers and the Yale Strike
"Bad" mothers
Imbeciles
Mother-Work
Journal Article Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890–1930. By Molly Ladd-Taylor. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. x, 211 pp. $39-95, ISBN 0-252-02044-8.) Get access Beverly Stadum Beverly Stadum St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082056 P…
Breeding Better Vermonters
Journal Article Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. By Nancy L. Gallagher. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999. xvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87451-951-9. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-87451-952-7.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, York Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, Se…
Raising a Baby the Government Way
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State
Improving Poor People
Journal Article Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 179 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-691-02994-6.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1256, https://…
The Selfless and the Helpless
Women Workers and the Yale Strike
Mother-Work
Women Workers and the Yale Strike
Raising a Baby the Government Way
Brought to Bed
Settlement Folk
Mina Carson deftly merges social and intellectual history to reconsider the settlement movement its Anglo-American roots and evolution, its conflicts and accomplishments. Carson focuses her study on the careers and ideas of settlement founders and leaders, among them Jane Addams, Robert Woods, Mary Simkhovitch, Lillian Wald, and Graham Taylor. She demonstrates how these influential, often charismatic leaders appropriated and adapted certain Victo…
Working Women of Collar City
Mother-Work
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
Mother-Work
Made to Play House
Journal Article Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830–1930. By Miriam Formanek-Brunell. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xiv, 233 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-05072-0.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, North York, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1708–1709, http…
Mother-Work
Journal Article Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890–1930. By Molly Ladd-Taylor. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. x, 211 pp. $39-95, ISBN 0-252-02044-8.) Get access Beverly Stadum Beverly Stadum St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082056 P…
Improving Poor People
Journal Article Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 179 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-691-02994-6.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1256, https://…
Mother-Work
Sex, Race, and Science
This study explores the theory and practice of eugenics in the American South. The author shows how the quest for strong bloodlines expressed itelf in state laws and public policies, many of which remain controversial to the present day - such as state control over sexuality and reproduction, the rights of disabled people and of ethnic minorities, and legal questions raised by new discoveries in genetics and medicine. The book describes how the s…
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State
"Bad" mothers
Raising Baby by the Book
Journal Article Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers. By Julia Grant. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. x, 309 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07214-7.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 279–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567506 Published: 01 Ju…
The Selfless and the Helpless
Breeding Better Vermonters
Journal Article Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. By Nancy L. Gallagher. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999. xvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87451-951-9. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-87451-952-7.) Get access Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor York University, York Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, Se…
Women, Health, and Nation
Authors provide a much-needed analysis of the dynamic decades after 1945, when both Canada and the United States began using federal funds to expand health-care access, and biomedical research and authority reached new heights. Focusing on a wide range of issues - including childbirth, abortion and sterilization, palliative care, pharmaceutical regulation, immigration, and Native health care - these essays illuminate the ironic promise of biomedi…
Choice and Coercion
Reviewed by: Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare Molly Ladd-Taylor Johanna Schoen . Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xv + 331 pp. Ill. $59.95 (cloth, 0-8078-2919-6), $19.95 (paperbound, 0-8078-5585-5). This important book on reproduction and U.S. s…
Imbeciles
Imperfect Pregnancies
Reviewed by: Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis by Ilana Löwy Molly Ladd-Taylor Ilana Löwy. Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 296 pp. $44.95 (978-1-4214-2363-0). In Imperfect Pregnancies, Ilana Löwy applies the nuanced approach of her previous work on cancer to birth defects and prenatal diagnosis. Löwy’s analysis of pren…
Ravished by Some Moron”
Twenty U.S. states permit the indefinite detention of civilly committed sex offenders after the end of their prison sentences if their dangerousness is due to a “mental abnormality.” This article explores the origins of one such law by examining its predecessor, the Minnesota Psychopathic Personality Act of 1939. Passed in the wake of a panic over sex crimes and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1940, Minnesota’s psychopath statute extended a 1917 e…
S tephanie W elch , director. A Dangerous Idea
A Dangerous Idea is a lively call to arms against genetic determinism and its role in the resurgence of racism and inequality in the Trump era. Stephanie Welch’s fast-moving documentary uses video clips and expert interviews to demonstrate that the American Dream is being put at risk by the “dangerous idea” that some individuals and races are inherently superior to others. Welch argues that from the Gilded Age until today, the junk sciences of eu…
Fixing the Poor
Political science (18 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (10 obras) · Law (10 obras) · History (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Engineering (7 obras) · Eugenics (7 obras)