Sexuality, politics, and social control in Virginia, 1920-1945

Sexuality, politics, and social control in Virginia, 1920-1945 /

In the first half of the 20th century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint. In order to reaffirm the existing political and social order, white politi...

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Main Author: Holloway, Pippa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Sex customs > Virginia > History.
African Americans > Sexual behavior > Virginia.
African Americans > Virginia > Social conditions.
Sexually transmitted diseases > Law and legislation > Virginia > History > 20th century.
Working class women > Sexual behavior > Virginia > History > 20th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Virginia > History.
Prejudices.
Social control.
Sexual Behavior > history
History, 20th Century
Prejudice
Sexually Transmitted Diseases > history
Social Control, Formal
Socioeconomic Factors
Sterilization, Involuntary > history
Virginia > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Virginia > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Virginia
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