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AFFILIA-JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND SOCIAL WORK
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 300-315Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0886109905277753
Keywords
African Americans; cult of true womanhood; female delinquency; progressive era; syphilis
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This article explores the nuances of female delinquency, as it was labeled, during the early 1900s from a medical and social perspective, particularly its manifestation among African American girls. It also examines the efforts made by African American women in early 20th-century North Carolina to address what was deemed female delinquency, as well as syphilis, among these young girls.
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