Policing sex in the Sunflower State : the story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women /

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"Policing Sex in the Sunflower State recounts the little-known story of Chapter 205, a state law that gave the Kansas Board of Health broad powers to quarantine individuals with venereal diseases. Though the law was officially gender-neutral and the state initially detained a few men under the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perry, Nicole (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Subjects:
Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women.
Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women
1900-1999
Reformatories for women > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Women prisoners > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Sexually transmitted diseases > Government policy > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Women > Sexual behavior > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Sex discrimination against women > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Sex > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Prisons de femmes > Kansas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Prisonnières > Kansas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Sexualité > Kansas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > Kansas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sexualité > Kansas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Women > Sexual behavior
Women prisoners
Sexually transmitted diseases > Government policy
Sex discrimination against women
Sex
Reformatories for women
Kansas
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. World War I, Sexuality, and Venereal Disease Control in Kansas
  • 2. Prisoners First, Patients Second: The Transition to a Peacetime Veneral Disease Control Policy
  • 3. "Anything to Please the Ladies": The Activist Women Who Founded the KSIFW
  • 4. Training Inmates for Respectability: The Professional Women of the KSIFW
  • 5. Paths to the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women
  • 6. Staking a Claim to Respectability: Inmate Accounts of Their Sexual Pasts
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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