What is eugenics?

What is eugenics? Do we still live with its legacy? What has its impact been on disabled people as a whole, and disabled women in particular? Approximately 500 words.

3 Readings required:
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Sharon Lamp and W. Carol Cleigh, A Heritage of Ableist Rhetoric in American Feminism from the Eugenics Period
Jennifer C. James, Gwendolyn Brooks, World War II, and the Politics of Rehabilitation

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