Growing a Race: Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism - Devereux, Cecily

Clean, tight; Pen underlining scattered throughout text; light wear to corners and dust jacket edges; otherwise tight with minimal wear; In this rare book Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's crusade for Women's rights was founded on the ideas of British eugenicists 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." Meticulously researched and energetically written, this book makes an informed and timely argument about McClung's eugenical feminism. 
Fair in Very Good dust jacket
Hardcover
McGill-Queen's University Press
2006
Montreal, QC