پرورش نژاد: نلی ال. مک‌کلانگ و داستان‌های فمینیسم نژادی

Growing a Race challenges the traditional reading of the fiction of Nellie McClung (1873-1951), revered author and pioneering feminist, situating it within a discourse of eugenical feminism that sought a racially homogenous "white Dominion." Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: McClung in the Third Wave: Revisiting the "Legacy" PART ONE: "TO SERVE AND SAVE THE RACE": MCCLUNG, MATERNAL FEMINISM, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF EUGENICS 1. Changing Perspectives of Maternal Feminism: Reconsidering the New Woman and the Mother of the Race 2. "Motherhood on the Eugenic Basis": How the Anti-Feminist Principles of Selective Breeding Became "One with the Woman Question" 3 Locating McClung's Eugenic Feminism: Didactic Fiction and Racial Education PART TWO: READING MATERNALISM IN MCCLUNG'S FICTION: THE CULTURE OF IMPERIAL MOTHERHOOD 4 "Finger-Posts on the Way to Right Living": Mothering the Prairies 5 Pearlie Watson and Eugenic Instruction in the Watson Trilogy: How to Be a Maternal Messiah of the New World PART THREE: EUGENIC PLOTS: FEMINIST WORK AND THE "RACIAL POISONS" 6 "The Great White Plague" in "The Last Best West": Tuberculosis, Temperance, and Woman Suffrage in Purple Springs 7 "In a Chinese Restaurant, Working at Night": Painted Fires, White Slavery, and the Protection of the Imperial Mother PART FOUR: EUGENIC FEMINISM AND "INDIAN WORK" 8 Re-Forming "Indianness": The Eugenic Politics of Assimilation 9 "Called to [the] Mission": Interpellating Métis Mothers in "Red and White" and "Babette" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W 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." "In recent scholarship, the extent to which Nellie McClung was implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada has created ambivalence around her legacy as one of the most popular figures in early twentieth-century women's rights activism. Cecily Devereux situates McClung's fiction within the context of her social reform work and the ways in which that work can be understood to be broadly eugenic or concerned with the preservation of race."--Résumé de l'éditeur "In recent scholarship, the extent to which Nellie McClung was implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada has created ambivalence around her legacy as one of the most popular figures in early twentieth-century women's rights activism. Cecily Devereux situates McClung's fiction within the context of her social reform work and the ways in which that work can be understood to be broadly eugenic or concerned with the preservation of race."--Jacket

In recent scholarship, the extent to which Nellie McClung was implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada has created ambivalence around her legacy as one of the most popular figures in early twentieth-century women's rights activism. Cecily Devereux situates McClung's fiction within the context of her social reform work and the ways in which that work can be understood to be broadly eugenic or concerned with the preservation of race.

A controversial study of the alleged racism in the fiction of Nellie McClung