Bad Girls at Samarcand: Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory by Karin Lorene Zipf

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

Karin Lorene Zipf

280 pages first pub 2016 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 jus...

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