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Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)

New Books in Psychology

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Utopian Visions and the Exclusion of Disability

This chapter examines how Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel 'Herland' intersects with issues of disability, eugenics, and feminist ideals. It critiques the exclusion of disabled and fat individuals from the utopian vision, revealing the societal implications of these exclusions regarding productivity and institutionalization.

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