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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zipf, Karin L., 1968- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo

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