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- Publication Name
- Harvard University Press
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- ISBN
- 9780674368118
- Book Title
- Policing Sexuality : the Mann Act and the Making of the FBI
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Law, Political Science, Social Science, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Law Enforcement, Legal History, Prostitution & Sex Trade
- Item Weight
- 23.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674368118
ISBN-13
9780674368118
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201663310
Product Key Features
Book Title
Policing Sexuality : the Mann Act and the Making of the FBI
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Law Enforcement, Legal History, Prostitution & Sex Trade
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-007800
Reviews
A brilliant, counterintuitive history of the FBI that takes women from the margins--party girls and runaways, adventurers and adulterers, hardened hustlers and delinquent daughters--and shows how they were central to the rise of federal power in America. Written in crystal clear, jargon-free prose, and brimming with important insights, Policing Sexuality is a major contribution to the histories of sexuality and government surveillance, and will be required reading for anyone interested in the sex trade, past, present, or future., A fascinating, first-rate study. Using a remarkable trove of documents in the Bureau of Investigation's white slavery files, Pliley resurrects a lost history of conflicts over gender, sexuality, masculinity, disease, and deviance in the early twentieth-century United States., Policing Sexuality ...is an insightful document about the history of government surveillance and control of sex and sexuality in the United States... Pliley's intriguing and easy to read book is a brilliant resource for historians, researchers in the field of gender and sexuality and anyone who is interested in the legal and historical aspects of sex trafficking and state policies., The White-Slave Traffic Act, commonly known as the Mann Act, was passed in the United States in 1910 and made it a felony to transport any 'woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose' across state lines. It was designed to fight a perceived growth of prostitution, especially the trafficking in of women from Europe to America. Pliley, drawing largely from the records of the Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of Investigation, and then Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), examines the way these agencies used the expansion of their powers less to protect women and more to control sexuality according to their own conservative culture. Using case files, Pliley shows how ideas about women's sexuality and the vagueness of the phrase 'any immoral purpose' were used to police sexual and moral boundaries. She illustrates how the law was more often employed by the FBI before World War II to prosecute unapproved premarital, extramarital, and interracial sexual relationships, than to prosecute human trafficking... 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.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
364.15/3409730904
Synopsis
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. By citing its mandate to halt illicit sexuality, the fledgling Bureau of Investigation gained entry not only into brothels but also into private bedrooms and justified its own expansion. 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. It built its national power and prestige by expanding its legal authority to police Americans' sexuality and by marginalizing the very women it was charged to protect., Jessica Pliley links the crusade against sex trafficking to the FBI's growth into a formidable law agency that cooperated with states and municipalities in pursuit of offenders. The Bureau intervened in squabbles on behalf of men intent on monitoring their wives and daughters and imprisoned prostitutes while seldom prosecuting their male clients.
LC Classification Number
HQ125.U6P62 2014
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