Bad Girls at Samarcand: Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory

Synopsis

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Place For White Girls : The Tricky Politics Of Juvenile Reform -- In Defense Of The Nation : Syphilis, North Carolina's Girl Problem, And World War I -- How To Make Bad Girls Good : Discipline And Resistance Inside A Girls' Reformatory, 1918 1925 -- Suddenly Proclaimed Unfit : The Eugenics Agenda Of Kate Burr Johnson -- A Modern Girl's Dilemma : Girl Runaways And Sexual Anxieties In Jazz-age North Carolina -- Not Penitent Yet : The Strategy Of The Defense In The Samarcand Arson Case -- Classifying Subnormal : Parole And Sterilization At The State Home And Industrial School For Girls, 1933-1950 -- A Mystery To Me : The Problem Of Incarcerating Female Delinquents In World War Ii-era North Carolina -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography. Karin L. Zipf. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 221-231) And Index.