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Periodical: American Journal of Eugenics

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

American Journal of Eugenics.
1907-1910
Chicago, IL, then Los Angeles, CA. Language: English.
Editor: Moses Harman.
Succeeds: Lucifer
1907-January-February 1910.

This was the last incarnation of Moses Harman's Lucifer the Lightbearer after he finished his final imprisonment in 1907 and moved toward a more scholarly presentation of individual sovereignty, sexology, women's rights, freedom of speech,and especially racial uplift and progress through "eugenics." Contributions by Theodore Schroeder, E.B. Foote, et al.

Other Sources:
Issues:American Journal Of Eugenics V1 N1 Jul 1907
American Journal Of Eugenics V1 N2 Aug 1907
American Journal Of Eugenics V1 N3 Sep 1907
American Journal Of Eugenics V1 N4 Oct 1907
American Journal Of Eugenics V1 N5 Nov 1907
American Journal Of Eugenics V1 N6 Dec 1907
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N10-11 Jan-feb 1909
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N1 Jan 1908
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N2 Feb 1908
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N3 Jun 1908
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N4 Jul 1908
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N5 Aug 1908
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N6-7 Sep-oct 1908
American Journal Of Eugenics V2 N8-9 Nov-dec 1908
American Journal Of Eugenics V3 N1-2 Mar-apr 1909
American Journal Of Eugenics V3 N3-4 May-jun 1909
American Journal Of Eugenics V3 N5-6 Sep-oct 1909
American Journal Of Eugenics V3 N7-8 Jan-feb 1910
American Journal Of Eugenics V3 N9 Mar 1910 Harmon Memorial Issue
Claude-Generated Themes:   The American Journal of Eugenics (1907–1910) was Moses Harman's continuation of his notorious free-love paper 'Lucifer, the Light-Bearer,' and its 'eugenics' means voluntary 'scientific race culture' through informed, uncoerced unions rather than the state hereditarianism the word later came to signify. Its pages argue for marriage reform, women's bodily self-ownership, voluntary parenthood, and non-punitive child-rearing, carried in the individualist-anarchist, freethinking idiom Harman had used for decades. A steady hygienic-reform layer — diet, vegetarianism, breathing, physical culture — runs alongside the sex-reform argument. It belongs to the radical reform press, not the occult one; the esoteric recall panels catch only generic words like 'success' and 'control' and misread them badly.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Women's Rights and Feminism