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OverviewIn Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining records from state institutions and reform organizations, newspapers, and state hospital museum exhibits. They reveal that state confinement, coercive treatment, care neglect, and forced sterilization were done out of the belief that the perceived unfitness of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people was hereditary and thus posed a biological threat—a so-called menace to the future. Whatcott uncovers a history of disabled resistance to these institutions that predates disability rights movements, builds a genealogy of resistance, and tells a history of eugenics from below. Theorizing how what they call “carceral eugenics” informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century ago, Whatcott shows not only how that same logic still exists in secure treatment facilities, state prisons, and immigration detention centers, but also why it must continue to be resisted. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jess WhatcottPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781478026518ISBN 10: 1478026510 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 13 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue. Detention Is Eugenics xiii Introduction. A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics 1 1. Making the Defective Class 28 2. The Carcerality of Eugenics 58 3. The Political Economy of Carceral Eugenics 85 4. From Maternalist Care to Anti-eugenics 119 5. Menacing the Present 147 Epilogue. Abolishing Carceral Eugenics 173 Notes 179 Bibliography 203 IndexReviews"""Menace to the Future clearly and accessibly shows that Institutionalization is (racialized and gendered/queered) disablement, detention is eugenics, and reproductive justice and abolition are key to liberation. Constructing an original anti-eugenic archive, Jess Whatcott provides an indispensable intersectional analysis of carceral eugenics that cannot be unthought once read. To truly understand why reproductive justice means abolishing confinement and/as carceral eugenics (as Whatcott calls, segregation based on biological traits), you need this book in your activist and scholarly toolbox.""--Liat Ben-Moshe, author of ""Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition""" Author InformationJess Whatcott is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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