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

by Karin Lorene Zipf

Book Overview

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 justified widespread gender, race, and class discrimination in the Jim Crow South.

In Bad Girls at Samarcand Karin L. Zipf dissects a dark episode in North Carolina's eugenics campaign through a detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807162493
• ISBN13: 9780807162491
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"