| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Christine Rosen. Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 286. $35.00.

During the last few decades, religious spokespersons have played a central role in discussions of strategies for regulating marriage, reproduction, and family size. It is therefore surprising that the role of religious leaders within the eugenics movement, which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sought both to encourage "fit" couples to increase the number of their progeny and to persuade, even coerce, the "feebleminded" and others deemed biologically "unfit" not to procreate, has received so little attention. In fact, Christine Rosen's book is the first sustained account of the response of opinion leaders within the American religious community to eugenics.

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