Bad Girls at Samarcand : Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory /

North Carolina's forced sterilization of more than 2,000 women and girls is among the many horrors that accompanied the rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century. This extreme measure, inflicted with impunity from 1929 to 1950, reflects how pseudoscience justified widespread...

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Autor principal: Zipf, Karin L., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.)
State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.) > History.
Sterilization of women.
Juvenile delinquency.
Eugenics.
Eugenics > history
Sterilization, Reproductive > history
Juvenile Delinquency > history
Eugenics > North Carolina > Eagle Springs > History.
Sterilization of women > North Carolina > Eagle Springs > History.
Juvenile delinquency > North Carolina > Eagle Springs > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A place for white girls : the tricky politics of juvenile reform
  • In defense of the nation : syphilis, North Carolina's "girl problem," and World War I
  • How to make bad girls good : discipline and resistance inside a girls' reformatory, 1918 1925
  • Suddenly proclaimed unfit : the eugenics agenda of Kate Burr Johnson
  • A modern girl's dilemma : girl runaways and sexual anxieties in jazz-age North Carolina
  • Not penitent yet : the strategy of the defense in the Samarcand arson case
  • Classifying "subnormal" : parole and sterilization at the state home and industrial school for girls, 1933-1950
  • "A mystery to me" : the problem of incarcerating female delinquents in World War II-era North Carolina
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.

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