Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s by Natalie Lira

Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s

Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the Twenty-First Century #6

Natalie Lira

276 pages • first pub 2021 (view editions)

nonfiction gender history dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the "feebleminded," justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Ins...

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