{"product_id":"under-the-guise-of-protection-erin-n-bush-9780813954820","title":"Under the Guise of Protection: Eugenics and Wayward Girls in Twentieth-Century Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA shocking story of social engineering in the era of Jim Crow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eugenics movement, in which the state arrogated to itself the right to determine who could and who could not have children, was a dark, shameful chapter in American history. Virginia was infamous as an epicenter of eugenic thought; the case of \u003ci\u003eBuck v. Bell\u003c\/i\u003e, which resulted in one of the Supreme Court's most notorious decisions, originated there. In \u003ci\u003eUnder the Guise of Protection\u003c\/i\u003e, Erin Bush describes how state programs designed for \"delinquent\" young women like Carrie Buck--whose sterilization took place while she was an inmate at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded--developed in Virginia's distinctive environment of \"progressive\" ideology and racial segregation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuck was far from alone. Between 1910 and 1942, the commonwealth's public welfare bureaucrats and charity workers confined more than 2,300 adolescent white and African American girls at juvenile reformatories. By examining the programs developed at these segregated institutions, in both rural and urban areas, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on the connections between juvenile justice, racial politics, and the tendentious use of \"science\" in the development of social reforms in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin N. Bush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813954827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813954820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Erin N. Bush","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447046877439,"sku":"9780813954820","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_023d8e58-a5a0-475f-817a-d0cf8852aea6.jpg?v=1777228453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/under-the-guise-of-protection-erin-n-bush-9780813954820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}