Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

viii, 303 pages ; 23 cm

Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization policy before the Second World War -- Buck v. bell and beyond -- Sterilization thwarted -- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany -- Revival and recovery : eugenics in new clothes -- Eugenics and world population growth -- The sterilized : voices from Alberta and Oregon -- Postwar sterilization : institutions and abuse -- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization -- Those who sterilized -- Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization.

Includes bibliographical references and index.