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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]
Descriptionxii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.
LCCN 2015035731
ISBN9780807162491 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807162493 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40025949713

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