Description du livre Etat : New. In a period that saw the rise of psychiatry, legislation against interracial marriage, and a populist movement that believed in eradicating disease and sin through Anglo-Saxon purity, Velma Demerson found herself confronted by powerful social forces. This i. N� de r�f. du vendeur 898959013

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Incorrigible (Life Writing)

Demerson, Velma

Edit� par Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2004)

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Velma Demerson

Edit� par Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario (2004)

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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. 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 in 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 Toronto's 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 finally released after ten months' incarceration, weeks of solitary confinement, abusive medical treatments, and the state's apprehension of her child, her marriage to her lover resulted in the loss of her citizenship status. This is the story of how Demerson, and so many other girls, were treated as criminals or mentally "defective" individuals, even though their worst crime might have been only their choice of lover. Incorrigible is a survivor's narrative.In a period that saw the rise of psychiatry, legislation against interracial marriage, and a populist movement that believed in eradicating disease and sin by improving the "purity" of Anglo-Saxon stock, Velma Demerson, like many young women, found herself confronted by powerful social forces. This is a history of some of those who fell through the cracks of the criminal code, told in a powerful first-person voice. In a period that saw the rise of psychiatry, legislation against interracial marriage, and a populist movement that believed in eradicating disease and sin through Anglo-Saxon purity, Velma Demerson found herself confronted by powerful social forces. This is a history of some of those who fell through the cracks of the criminal code. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N� de r�f. du vendeur 9780889204447

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