Empire of Purity (eBook)

The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution

Eva Payne (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25706-8 (ISBN)

Infos

How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization and a basis of American exceptionalism. Empire of Purity traces the history of these efforts, showing how the policing and penalization of sexuality was used to justify American interventions around the world.Eva Payne describes how American reformers successfully pushed for international anti-trafficking agreements that mirrored US laws, calling for states to criminalize prostitution and restrict migration, and harming the very women they claimed to protect. She argues that Americans' ambitions to reshape global sexual morality and law advanced an ideology of racial hierarchy that viewed women of color, immigrants, and sexual minorities as dangerous vectors of disease. Payne tells the stories of the sex workers themselves, revealing how these women's experiences defy the dichotomies that have shaped American cultural and legal conceptions of prostitution and trafficking, such as choice and coercion, free and unfree labor, and white sexual innocence and the assumed depravity of nonwhites.Drawing on archives in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Empire of Purity ties the war on sexual vice to American imperial ambitions and a politicization of sexuality that continues to govern both domestic and international policy today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abolitionists • American Exceptionalism • American Social Hygiene Association • brothels • CAMP • Canal • carceral state • Century • Cities • Colonialism • commercial • commission • Country • Disease • districts • Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution • Eva Payne • Federal • Feminism • Girls • Government • Health • humanitarianism • Human Trafficking • Hygiene • imperialism • Investigations • Investigators • Johnson • Kinsie • Labor • Laws • league • League of Nations • Mainland • Medical • Military • Moral • Morality • officials • Organizations • Plan • Police • policing • Policy • Power • Prostitutes • Prostitution • Public Health • Puerto • Purity • Race and racism • racial • Regulation • Republic • Rico • Sex • Sex Trafficking • Sex Work • Slavery • Social purity reform • social reform • Social Science • soldiers • Traffic • Training Camp • Treatment • troops • US military • Venereal • Venereal Disease • VICE • Vice control • war • white slavery • World War 1
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25706-X / 069125706X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25706-8 / 9780691257068