Hopkinsville Community College English instructor and author Elizabeth Burton recently received a $1,000 Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant to complete the research for her novel.
The Kentucky Foundation for Women awarded 44 Artist Enrichment grants totaling $164,960 to commonwealth feminist artists and arts organizations committed to creating positive social change throughout the state.
Burtonâs novel focuses on the eugenics movement of the 20th Century. Eugenics is the study of improving the qualities of the human population by discouraging reproduction by people with genetic defects or inheritable âundesirableâ traits or encouraging reproduction by people with inheritable âdesirableâ traits. As a result of this movement, thousands of people were involuntarily sterilized.