Description
Product ID: | 9780700631889 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Policing Sex in the Sunflower State |
Subtitle: | The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women |
Authors: | Author: Nicole Perry |
Page Count: | 296 |
Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Gender studies: women, Sociology: sexual relations, Discrimination in employment law, Kansas |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Tells the history of how, over a span of two decades, the Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. Nicole Perry offers a timely critique of a failed public health policy that was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand. |
Imprint Name: | University Press of Kansas |
Publisher Name: | University Press of Kansas |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-06-30 |