Main entry:

Cogdell, Christina.

Title & Author:

Eugenic design : streamlining America in the 1930s / Christina Cogdell.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.

Description:

xvii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index.
Controlling evolution -- Products or bodies? : streamline design and eugenics as applied biology -- Progenitors of the future : popularizing streamlining and eugenics during the 1930s -- "Flow is the word" : biological efficiency and streamline design -- Race hygiene, product hygiene : curing disease through sterilization -- Future perfect? : the elusive "ideal type" -- Pseudoscience? Pseudostyle?
Also issued online.
Society for the History of Technology Sidney Edelstein Prize, 2006.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could - and should - be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way eugenicists approached bodies. Both considered themselves to be reformers advancing evolutionary progress through increased efficiency, hygiene, and the creation of a utopian "ideal type." Cogdell reconsiders the popular streamline style in U.S. industrial design and proposes that in theory, rhetoric, and context the style served as a material embodiment of eugenic ideology." "With careful analysis and abundant illustrations, Eugenic Design is a reinterpretation of one of America's most significant and popular design forms, ultimately grappling with the question of how ideology influences design."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0812238249 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780812238242 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780812221220 (pbk.)
0812221222 (pbk.)

Subject:

Design 2016
Eugenics Social aspects United States History 20th century.
Design Social aspects United States History 20th century.
Aerodynamics Social aspects United States History 20th century.
Industrial design Social aspects United States History 20th century.
Genetics Social aspects United States History 20th century.
Racism United States History 20th century.
Prejudices.
Social values.
Eugenics history
Equipment Design history
History, 20th Century
Prejudice
Social Values
Eugénisme Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Aérodynamique Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Génétique Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Racisme États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
Préjugés.
Valeurs sociales.
Civilization
Design Social aspects
Eugenics Social aspects
Genetics Social aspects
Industrial design Social aspects
Race relations
Racism
Social conditions
Aerodynamik
Eugenik
Industriedesign
Kunst
Rassismus
Soziokultureller Wandel
Ästhetik
Geschichte 1930-1940.
United States Civilization 1918-1945.
United States Race relations.
United States Social conditions 1933-1945.
United States
États-Unis Civilisation 1918-1945.
États-Unis Relations raciales.
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1933-1945.
USA

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234233
Call No.: HQ755.5.U6 C6 2004
Status: Available