Scott Wasserman Stern
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Though Nina insisted she could not possibly have an STI, she was coerced into committing herself to the Bay City Detention Hospital,...