Bad girls at Samarcand : sexuality and sterilization in a southern juvenile reformatory / Karin L. Zipf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zipf, Karin L., 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--North Carolina--Eagle Springs--History.

Juvenile delinquency.

Sterilization of women--North Carolina--Eagle Springs--History.

Sterilization of women.

Eugenics--North Carolina--Eagle Springs--History.

Eugenics.

History.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807162491

0807162493

OCLC:

925498062