Bad girls at Samarcand : sexuality and sterilization in a southern juvenile reformatory / Karin L. Zipf.
Author/creator |
Zipf, Karin L., 1968- author. |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016] |
Description | xii, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents | 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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index. |
LCCN | 2015035731 |
ISBN | 9780807162491 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0807162493 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Standard identifier# | 40025949713 |
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