Official Price Guide to Star Wars Memorabilia
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Official Price Guide to Star Wars Memorabilia by Jeremy Beckett
Traces the history of eugenics ideology in the United States and its ongoing presence in contemporary life. The Nazis may have given eugenics its negative connotations, but the practice--and the science that supports it--is still disturbingly alive in America in anti-immigration initiatives, the quest for a gay gene, and theories of collective intelligence. Tracing the historical roots and persistence of eugenics in the United States, Nancy Ordover explores the political and cultural climate that has endowed these campaigns with mass appeal and scientific legitimacy. American Eugenics demonstrates how biological theories of race, gender, and sexuality are crucially linked through a concern with regulating the unfit. These links emerge in Ordover's examination of three separate but ultimately related American eugenics campaigns: early twentieth-century anti-immigration crusades; medical models and interventions imposed on (and sometimes embraced by) lesbians, gays, transgendered people, and bisexuals; and the compulsory sterilization of poor women and women of color. Throughout, her work reveals how constructed notions of race, gender, sexuality, and nation are put to ideological uses and how faith in science can undermine progressive social movements, drawing liberals and conservatives alike into eugenics-based discourse and policies.
Jeremy Beckett has been collecting Star Wars items since he first picked up George Lucas' original novelization of A New Hope in 1976. He has amassed a collection numbering in the thousands. Jeremy joined Rebelscum.com, a Web site totally devoted to Star Wars collecting, in 2001, and now manages their dedicated European Star Wars collecting sister site as well as his own retro computer Star Wars gaming Web site, The Emulator Strikes Back.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375720758 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375720758 |
| Title | Official Price Guide to Star Wars Memorabilia |
| Author | Jeremy Beckett |
| Series | Official Price Guide To Star Wars Memorabilia |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2005-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 369 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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