Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory
by
Karin Lorene Zipf
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
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...