The Mind of a Deviant Woman

Carrie Buck, a young woman living in early-twentieth-century Virginia, is raped and becomes pregnant by a family member-and her trauma is only beginning. She is deemed a "deviant" for having a child out of wedlock and, for that reason, is a candidate for sterilization.
Louisa Van Patten, a New York socialite, is an advocate of the eugenics movement, which promotes this punishment.
When Carrie and Louisa meet, along with journalist Ben Newman, during a national debate about the merits of forced sterilization, all their lives-and ours-are changed forever.
Paula Paul's historical novel The Mind of a Deviant Woman offers a thrilling story based in extensive research into a little-known, but devastating, part of American history.

Product details

• Authors: Paula Paul
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2018
• EAN: 9781478798835
• ISBN: 978-1-4787-9883-5
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 487 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature