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The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity /
"The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity offers a comprehensive account of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century sex trafficking rhetoric to uncover how white womanhood, as a symbolic construct, is appropriated to structure national space and belonging"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity offers a comprehensive account of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century sex trafficking rhetoric to uncover how white womanhood, as a symbolic construct, is appropriated to structure national space and belonging"-- |
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| Item Description: | Slavery up north: women's displacement in the Wisconsin Northwoods, 1887-1889 -- Mobility and the danger of the city: moral reform in Chicago , 1907-1914 -- The science of social mobility: John D. Rockefeller and the science of reform, 1910-1917 -- A national solution: protecting Whiteness through the 1910 Mann Act -- White slavery and yellow peril: Immigration and transnational threat -- White slavery and transnational flow: International sex trafficking activism before World War I. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781609177331 |