Policing Sexuality : : The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI / / Jessica R. Pliley.
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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 1 halftone |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction The Mann Act and Federal Sexual Surveillance
- 1. The American Myth of White Slavery
- 2. A National White Slavery Squad
- 3. Endangered Daughters
- 4. Creating a Moral Quarantine
- 5 Defining Immoral Purposes
- 6. Policing Seduction and Adultery
- 7. Coerced Sex and Forced Prostitution
- 8. The FBI's Assault on Sex Trafficking
- Conclusion
- Note on Sources
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index