List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The waters must be purified at their source -- 2. To stem the ever-increasing tide -- 3. Deprived or depraved? -- 4. What such a place would do to the nerves of a child, September 1935-June 1936 -- 5. Aftermath -- 6. The Beloit case in context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
""The Incorrigibles" explores the relationship between Progressive social welfare institutions and eugenics, which, in the mid-1930s, justified the sterilization of fifty-one juvenile girls from the Girls' Industrial School in Beloit, Kansas"-- Provided by publisher
