Laboratory of deficiency : sterilization and confinement in California, 1900-1950s /

"Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the "feebleminded," justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional records document the conve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lira, Natalie, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Colección:Reproductive justice ; 6.
Temas:
1900-1999
Involuntary sterilization > California > 20th century.
Developmentally disabled > California > 20th century.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > California > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > California > 20th century.
Stérilisation eugénique > Californie > 20e siècle.
Personnes atteintes de troubles du développement > Californie > 20e siècle.
Internement (Psychiatrie) > Californie > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Californie > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Developmentally disabled.
Involuntary sterilization.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention.
Mexican Americans.
California.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Life, labor, and reproduction at the intersections of race, gender, and disability
  • The Pacific plan : mental deficiency, racialization, and sterilization in California's pacific colony
  • The Mexican sex menace : labor, reproduction, and feeblemindedness
  • The laboratory of deficiency : race, knowledge, and the reproductive politics of juvenile delinquency
  • Riots, refusals, and other defiant acts : resisting confinement and sterilization at Pacific colony.

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