The Sexual Basis of Racial Formation: Crusades Against Forced Prosititution, 1887--1917 (2001)
Donovan, Brian Lane (Author)
Northwestern University
Beisel, Nicola
Edition Details: Advisor: Beisel, Nicola
Physical Details: 318 pp.
Language: English
This dissertation compares anti-vice organizations that fought forced prostitution, or "white slavery," during the early twentieth-century in the United States. This research uses archival methods and materials to make comparisons among anti-vice crusades in three cities: New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. I compare constructions of women's sexual agency and racial boundaries expressed in white slavery narratives, arguing that ideas of racial difference build upon claims about sexual innocence and danger. White slavery narratives offered a discursive resource that people used to police racial boundaries. Historians and sociologists have analyzed anti- prostitution crusades as a "moral panic," an irrational response to an imaginary threat. In contrast to this interpretation, my research demonstrates that anti-vice reformers used white slavery stories to engage in political projects targeting sexual practices that posed a threat to white hegemony. This research contributes to historical understandings of anti-vice crusades and offers an explanation for the theoretical intersection of race and sexuality.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 62 (2002): 3945. UMI order no. 3033470.
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