Ry Marcattilio-McCracken

The Incorrigibles

Eugenics and Sterilization in the Kansas Industrial School for Girls

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781496230744
• ISBN-10: 1496230744
• Artikelnr.: 66458883

Autorenporträt

Ry Marcattilio-McCracken is an associate director for research at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He is also an adjunct professor of history at Oklahoma State University.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Waters Must Be Purified at Their Source
2. To Stem the Ever-Increasing Tide
3. Deprived or Depraved?
4. September 1935–June 1936
5. Aftermath
6. The Beloit Case in Context
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index