Name: The Trials of Nina Mccall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison Promiscuous Women (en Inglés)
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Author: Stern, Scott W.
ISBN: 9780807021859

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The Trials of Nina Mccall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison Promiscuous Women (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Scott W. Stern

Editorial

Beacon Press

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x15.2x2.3 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780807021859

N° edición

N/A

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Biografía: general
Estudios de género: mujeres y chicas
Historia de américa

The Trials of Nina Mccall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison Promiscuous Women (en Inglés)

Scott W. Stern (Autor) · Beacon Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.