Art, sex and eugenics : corpus delecti / edited by Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008], ©2008.

xviii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Improper moves: Maori Haka and racial destiny / Roger Blackley -- The art of scientific propaganda / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Eroticizing Lamarckian eugenics: the body stripped bare during French sexual neoregulation / Fae Brauer -- Man or machine: ideals of the labouring male body and the aesthetics of industrial production in early twentieth-century Europe / Anthea Callen -- "Desiring skin": eugenics, trauma and acting out of masculinities in British inter-war visual culture / Gabriel Koureas -- "The proper peep": conflicting female ideals under German national socialism / Lorettann Gascard -- Bolshevism and "sexual revolution": visualizing new Soviet woman as the Eugenic ideal / Pat Simpson -- Future perfect? the elusive "ideal type" / Christina Cogdell.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.