Author: United States. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board
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Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Report of the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board of the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1920[-22].
Author: United States. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board
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Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Publisher:
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Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Trials of Nina McCall
Author: Scott W. Stern
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807042765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.” —New York Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century. Tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of women and girls were locked up—usually without due process—simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes, carrying STIs, or just “promiscuous.” This discriminatory program, dubbed the “American Plan,” lasted from the 1910s into the 1950s, implicating a number of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Earl Warren, and even Eliot Ness, while laying the foundation for the modern system of women’s prisons. In some places, vestiges of the Plan lingered into the 1960s and 1970s, and the laws that undergirded it remain on the books to this day. Nina McCall’s story provides crucial insight into the lives of countless other women incarcerated under the American Plan. Stern demonstrates the pain and shame felt by these women and details the multitude of mortifications they endured, both during and after their internment. Yet thousands of incarcerated women rioted, fought back against their oppressors, or burned their detention facilities to the ground; they jumped out of windows or leapt from moving trains or scaled barbed-wire fences in order to escape. And, as Nina McCall did, they sued their captors. In an age of renewed activism surrounding harassment, health care, prisons, women’s rights, and the power of the state, this virtually lost chapter of our history is vital reading.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807042765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.” —New York Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century. Tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of women and girls were locked up—usually without due process—simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes, carrying STIs, or just “promiscuous.” This discriminatory program, dubbed the “American Plan,” lasted from the 1910s into the 1950s, implicating a number of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Earl Warren, and even Eliot Ness, while laying the foundation for the modern system of women’s prisons. In some places, vestiges of the Plan lingered into the 1960s and 1970s, and the laws that undergirded it remain on the books to this day. Nina McCall’s story provides crucial insight into the lives of countless other women incarcerated under the American Plan. Stern demonstrates the pain and shame felt by these women and details the multitude of mortifications they endured, both during and after their internment. Yet thousands of incarcerated women rioted, fought back against their oppressors, or burned their detention facilities to the ground; they jumped out of windows or leapt from moving trains or scaled barbed-wire fences in order to escape. And, as Nina McCall did, they sued their captors. In an age of renewed activism surrounding harassment, health care, prisons, women’s rights, and the power of the state, this virtually lost chapter of our history is vital reading.
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Minnesota Year Book
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Report of the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board
Author: United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board
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Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Catalogues and Indexes of British Government Publications, 1920-1970: Annual catalogues of British government publications, 1920-1935
Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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