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Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Journal of Social Hygiene
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Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Task of Social Hygiene
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Social Hygiene
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Category : Hygiene, Sexual
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Hygiene, Sexual
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Social Hygiene Bulletin
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The American Social Hygiene Association Bulletin
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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American Social Hygiene Association Bulletin
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Category : Sexual health
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Sexual health
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Established Points in Social Hygiene Education 1905-1924
Author: American Social Hygiene Association
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Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Social Hygiene in New York State and City
Author: American Social Hygiene Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Pages : 7
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The Bulletin of the Oregon Social Hygiene Society
Author: Oregon Social Hygiene Society, Portland
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Category : Sexual ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Sexual ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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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
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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.