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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perry, Nicole (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women.
Women > Sexual behavior
Women prisoners
Sexually transmitted diseases > Government policy
Sex discrimination against women
Sex
Reformatories for women
Sex > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Sex discrimination against women > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Women > Sexual behavior > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Sexually transmitted diseases > Government policy > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Women prisoners > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Reformatories for women > Kansas > History > 20th century.
Kansas
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • World War I, Sexuality, and Venereal Disease Control in Kansas
  • Prisoners First, Patients Second: The Transition to a Peacetime Venereal Disease Control Policy
  • "Anything to Please the Ladies": The Activist Women who Founded the KSIFW
  • Training Inmates for Respectability: The Professional Women of the KSIFW
  • Paths to the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women
  • Staking a Claim to Respectability: Inmate Accounts of their Sexual Pasts
  • Conclusion.

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