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

(Part of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Series)

by Karin Lorene Zipf

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Of the many consequences advanced by the rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, North Carolina forcibly sterilized more than 2,000 women and girls in between 1929 and 1950. This extreme measure reflects how pseudoscience justified widespread gender, race, and class discrimination in the Jim Crow South.

In Bad Girls at Samarcand Karin L. Zipf dissects a dark episode in North Carolina's eugenics campaign through a detailed...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807162493

ISBN13:9780807162491

Release Date:April 2016

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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

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