Nonfiction: The ‘Social Hygiene’ Campaign That Sent Thousands of American Women to Jail

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Scott W. Stern’s “The Trials of Nina McCall” is the first book-length history of the “American Plan,” under which women suspected of having venereal disease were forcibly examined and imprisoned.

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