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Copyright: Dorte Sandorff (dorte_s_t)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 254 W: 0 N: 496]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (2253) |
| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-10-21 |
| Categories: Daily Life, Nature, Event |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-10-30 6:02 |
| Viewed: 535 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
......From 1923 to 1961 (!) these buildings - well hidden , but well known - housed " morally disabled women ".
The background was eugenic and hygienic ideas of incidence of bad genetic material , birth of degenerated children , fear of decreasing sexual moral and incidence of VD in society etc.
Diagnostic code words were : degenerated , psychopathic loose , criminal and mentally disabled.
The women's institution on Sprogoe implied a number of paradoxes :
It was not a hospital , but the women were considered to be ill .
It was not a prison , but the women were isolated indefinitely .
Great store was set by the "freedom" they had on the island - yet they were imprisoned..... |
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