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Incorrigible
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ISBN: 1280280700 9786610280704 0889209308 1417573287 9781417573288 0889204446 9780889204447 9781280280702 6610280703 9780889209305 Year: 2004 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a "crime" that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward girls, Demerson was then transferred (along with forty-six other girls) to Torontos Mercer Reformatory for Females. The girls were locked in their cells for twelve hours a day and required to work in the on-site laundry and factory. They also endured suspect medical examinations. When Demerson was fin

Sexual Reckonings
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ISBN: 9780674024526 0674024524 0674029143 9780674029149 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts.

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