Policing Sexuality (ePub)
The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Brilliant. . . . [A] major contribution to the histories of sexuality and government surveillance" (Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America).
America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it...
America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it...
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"Brilliant. . . . [A] major contribution to the histories of sexuality and government surveillance" (Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America).
America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. But, as Jessica Pliley illustrates, its enforcement resulted more often in the policing of women's sexual behavior, reflecting conservative attitudes toward women's roles at home and their movements in public.
Policing Sexuality links the crusade against sex trafficking to the rapid growth of the Bureau from a few dozen agents at the time of the Mann Act into a formidable law enforcement organization that cooperated with state and municipal authorities across the nation. In pursuit of offenders, the Bureau often intervened in domestic squabbles on behalf of men intent on monitoring their wives and daughters. Working prostitutes were imprisoned at dramatically increased rates, while their male clients were seldom prosecuted.
In upholding the Mann Act, the FBI reinforced sexually conservative views of the chaste woman and the respectable husband and father, building national power by expanding its legal authority to police Americans' sexuality and by marginalizing the very women it was charged to protect.
"A fascinating, first-rate study . . . Pliley resurrects a lost history of conflicts over gender, sexuality, masculinity, disease, and deviance in the early twentieth-century United States." -Beverly Gage, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded
"A valuable contribution for those curious about the history of women, gender, and sexuality, as well as those interested in the role of policing and the FBI in the cultural and political history of the U.S. in the 20th century."
America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. But, as Jessica Pliley illustrates, its enforcement resulted more often in the policing of women's sexual behavior, reflecting conservative attitudes toward women's roles at home and their movements in public.
Policing Sexuality links the crusade against sex trafficking to the rapid growth of the Bureau from a few dozen agents at the time of the Mann Act into a formidable law enforcement organization that cooperated with state and municipal authorities across the nation. In pursuit of offenders, the Bureau often intervened in domestic squabbles on behalf of men intent on monitoring their wives and daughters. Working prostitutes were imprisoned at dramatically increased rates, while their male clients were seldom prosecuted.
In upholding the Mann Act, the FBI reinforced sexually conservative views of the chaste woman and the respectable husband and father, building national power by expanding its legal authority to police Americans' sexuality and by marginalizing the very women it was charged to protect.
"A fascinating, first-rate study . . . Pliley resurrects a lost history of conflicts over gender, sexuality, masculinity, disease, and deviance in the early twentieth-century United States." -Beverly Gage, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded
"A valuable contribution for those curious about the history of women, gender, and sexuality, as well as those interested in the role of policing and the FBI in the cultural and political history of the U.S. in the 20th century."
Autoren-Porträt von Jessica R. Pliley
Jessica R. Pliley is Assistant Professor of Women's History at Texas State University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jessica R. Pliley
- 2023, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- ISBN-10: 0674745108
- ISBN-13: 9780674745100
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.01.2023
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