Acknowledgments
Introduction: Generating the Good
Chapter One: Legal Fictions of Genealogy
Chapter Two: Mothers Have Animals, Fathers Have Heirs
Chapter Three: Questions of Kind: A Human Species
Chapter Four: Questions of Kind: (family) Race (species)
Chapter Five: Genealogical Purification
Chapter Six: Medical Police and Hybridization
Chapter Seven: Literary Insight: Brotherhood, the End of Tolerance
Postscript: Heredity’s Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Sara Eigen Figal is on the faculty of the German Department at Vanderbilt University. She is co-editor (with Mark Larrimore) of The German Invention of Race, a collection of essays on eighteenth-century science, philosophy, political theory, and literature, published with SUNY Press.
"This book offers a great deal of valuable research and discussion material." -- L.L. Lovern, Valdosta State University
