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The Incorrigibles : Eugenics and Sterilization in the Kansas Industrial School for Girls
Title
The Incorrigibles : Eugenics and Sterilization in the Kansas Industrial School for Girls / Ry Marcattilio-McCracken.
ISBN
9781496237101
9781496230744
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource (228 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
""The Incorrigibles" explores the relationship between Progressive social welfare institutions and eugenics, which, in the mid-1930s, justified the sterilization of fifty-one juvenile girls from the Girls' Industrial School in Beloit, Kansas"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 03, 2023
Contents
Introduction
The Waters Must Be Purified at Their Source
To Stem the Ever-Increasing Tide
Deprived or Depraved?
What Such a Place Would Do to the Nerves of a Child, September 1935-June 1936
Aftermath
The Beloit Case in Context
Conclusion.
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Genre/Form
History.
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