Policing sexuality
Subtitle: the Mann Act and the making of the FBI
By: Jessica R. Pliley
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780674368118
Subjects: Vice control; Prostitution; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States; Moral conditions; Human trafficking; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Mann Act and federal sexual surveillance; title: The American myth of white slavery; title: A national white slavery squad; title: Endangered daughters; title: Creating a moral quarantine; title: Defining immoral purposes; title: Policing seduction and adultery; title: Coerced sex and forced prostitution; title: The FBI's assault on sex trafficking; title: Conclusion: can the country's moral borders be policed?