If you were deemed worthy of being sterilized by a doctor, there was no board where you could have a hearing to protest.

Christina Cogdell

Christina Cogdell is chair of the design department at University of California, Davis. She is a specialist in eugenics and American consumer culture in the early twentieth century.She received her BA (American Studies) from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1991. Her MA (American Studies) from the University of Notre Dame in 1994, and her PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001.

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