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Eugenics (Search) concerns the scientific knowledge of the laws of sex, life and heredity.
In the Name of Eugenics Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity:
At the end of the 20th century, biotechnological techniques and other agendas are making forms of human eugenics plausible. Rich in anecdote, narrative, and fact. An important book.
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Young men are not always responsible for spooning?Create|Search. Some young women take the initiative. Girls who are addicted to the dance are accustomed to free personal contact with men. These girls are many times inclined to bestow favors. They sometimes invite familiarities. Girls who keep a quantity of vicious post cards in their parlors and who invite their men friends to look at them, do not object personally to spooning?Create|Search.
Girls who are fond of wearing very low necked dresses, certainly ought to be informed that this is the most extreme and dangerous form of invitation. The partially concealed charms of women are universal temptations to men. A woman has no more moral right to dress in such manner as to tempt men to wrong desire, than a man has to tempt a woman to do wrong. A reform in low-necked dresses is a moral necessity.
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by Angelique Richardson
Love and Eugenics among the Late Victorians is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.
Our Posthuman Future Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama (Author)
A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of “the end of history,” Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man’s changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity’s utopians and dictators who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. Fukuyama argues that the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person’s descendants will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken with the best of intentions. In Our Posthuman Future, one of our greatest social philosophers begins to describe the potential effects of genetic exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature.
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