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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan To Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
By Stern, Scott W.
- ISBN
- 9780807042755 9780807042762
- Publisher
- Beacon
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Reviewed on May 1, 2018 | Social Sciences
Scholar Stern, expanding upon his thesis research, recounts the "American Plan," a World War I-era mass incarceration movement in which women suspected of being infected with syphilis or gonorrhea were forced to undergo gynecological examinations, then incarcerated and subjected to harsh, ineffective treatments. The story is told through the eyes of Nina McCall, who was imprisoned under the plan a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
