{"id":3097,"date":"2026-11-09T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:40:19","slug":"book-of-the-month-women-of-a-promiscuous-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Month: Women of a Promiscuous Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart, being accused of \u201cpromiscuity\u201d in 1940s North Carolina, a young woman unjustly incarcerated and subjected to involuntary medical treatment at The State Industrial Farm Colony for Women decides to fight back in this powerful, shockingly timely novel based on the long-buried history of the American Plan, the government program designed to regulate women\u2019s bodies and sexuality throughout the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pick up your copy at the circulation desk today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart, being accused of \u201cpromiscuity\u201d in 1940s North Carolina, a young woman unjustly incarcerated and subjected to involuntary medical treatment at The State Industrial Farm Colony for Women decides to fight back in this powerful, shockingly timely novel based on the long-buried history of the American Plan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[174,587,589,588],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-adult-programming","tag-book-of-the-month","tag-donna-everhart","tag-incarceration","tag-women-of-a-promiscuous-nature","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}