Literary Criticism Women Authors
Growing a Race
Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2006
- Category
- Women Authors, Feminist
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773529373
- Publish Date
- Feb 2006
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773573048
- Publish Date
- Feb 2006
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
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."
About the author
Cecily Devereux is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her publications include Growing a Race: Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism (2005).