Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!homxa!carson From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: eugenetics article Message-ID: <443@homxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 19:18:22 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.443 Posted: Mon Oct 15 19:18:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:32:55 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 10 This is a pointer to a series of articles in the New Yorker (So now you all know I read yuppie magazines, sigh) on the history of eugenetics (both "positive" (ie middle class females should have 5-6 kids instead of education) and "negative" (sterilize the defectives)), IQ tests, "the woman question", and so on....This week was part 2 of 4...It's very well written, recognizing the cruelty of some of the positions but sympathetic to the spirit of the age, accurate without being ponderous.... Patty