Corporate Body

Eugenics Society of Victoria (1936 - 1961)

From
1936
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1961
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Summary

Stub entry - see predecessor Victorian Eugenics Society (1914-c1936).

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Archival resources

Wellcome Collection

  • Victoria Eugenics Society, 1914 - 1939, SA/EUG/E.3; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome Collection. Details
  • Victoria Eugenics Society, 1940 - 1961, SA/EUG/E.4; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Booth, Angela, Voluntary sterilization for human betterment (Melbourne: Eugenics Society of Victoria, 1938), 15 pp. Details
  • Wyndham, Diana, Eugenics in Australia: Striving for National Fitness (London: Diana Wyndham and the Galton Institute, 2003), 406 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Garton, Stephen, 'Writing Eugenics: a History of Classifying Practices' in A Race for Place: Eugenics, Darwinism and Social Thought and Practice in Australia. Proceedings of the History and Sociology of Eugenic Conference, University of Newcastle, 27-28 April 2000, Martin Crotty, John Germov and Grant Rodwell, eds (Newcastle: University of Newcastle, 2000). Details

Conference Papers

  • Rodwell, Grant, 'The Unkindest Cut of All: Eugenics, Masturbation and Circumcision', in A Race for Place: Eugenics, Darwinism and Social Thought and Practice in Australia. Proceedings of the History and Sociology of Eugenic Conference, University of Newcastle, 27-28 April 2000 edited by Martin Crotty, John Germov and Grant Rodwell (Newcastle: University of Newcastle, 2000).. Details

Conference Proceedings

  • A Race for Place: Eugenics, Darwinism and Social Thought and Practice in Australia. Proceedings of the History and Sociology Conference, University of Newcastle, 27-28 April 2000 edited by Crotty, Martin; Germov, John; Rodwell, Grant (Newcastle: University of Newcastle, 2000). Details

Edited Books

  • Paul, Diane B.; Stenhouse, John; and Spencer, Hamish G. eds, Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 320 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cawte, Mary, 'Craniometry and Eugenics in Australia: R. J. A. Berry and the Quest for Social Efficiency', Historical Studies, 22 (86) (1986), 35-53. Details
  • Garton, Stephen, 'Sound Minds and Healthy Bodies: Re-considering Eugenics in Australia, 1914-1940', Australian Historical Studies, 26 (103) (1994), 21-34. Details
  • Kirk, David and Twigg, Karen, 'Regulating Australian Bodies: Eugenics, Anthropometrics and School Medical Inspection in Victoria, 1900-1940', History of Education Review, 23 (1) (1994), 19-37. Details
  • Maxwell, Anne, 'Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870 - 1940', Studies in history and philosophy of science, 92 (2022), 71-85, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.01.005. Details
  • Rodwell, Grant, 'Domestic Science, Race Motherhood and Eugenics in Australian State Schools, 1900-1960', History of Education Review, 29 (2) (2000), 67-83. Details
  • Watts, Rob, 'Beyond Nature and Nurture: Eugenics in Twentieth Century Australian History', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 40 (3) (1994), 318-334. Details

Reviews

  • Paul, Diane B., Stenhouse, John and Spencer, Hamish G., eds., Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa (2017)
    Durst, Dennis, Isis, 110 (4), (2019), 842-3. Details
  • Paul, Diane B., Stenhouse, John and Spencer, Hamish G., eds., Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa (2017)
    Kain, Jennifer S., Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (1), (2020), 69, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR20902. Details
  • Paul, Diane B., Stenhouse, John and Spencer, Hamish G., eds., Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa (2017)
    Karageorgos, Effie, Australian historical studies, 51 (1), (2020), 97-8. Details

Theses

  • Wyndham, Diana, 'Striving for National Fitness: Eugenics in Australia, 1920s to 1930s', PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 1997. Details

See also

  • Jones, Ross L. ; Waghorne, James; and Langton, Marcia, 'Introduction' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. xiii-xxix, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details

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