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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Pippa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--Virginia--History.

Sex customs.

African Americans--Sexual behavior--Virginia.

African Americans.

African Americans--Virginia--Social conditions.

Sexually transmitted diseases--Law and legislation--Virginia--History--20th century.

Sexually transmitted diseases.

Working class women--Sexual behavior--Virginia--History--20th century.

Working class women.

Elite (Social sciences)--Virginia--History.

Elite (Social sciences).

Virginia--Race relations--History--20th century.

Virginia.

Virginia--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the first half of the twentieth 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 politicians legalized eugenic sterilization, increased state efforts to control venereal disease and prostitution, cracked down on interracial marriage, and enacted statewide movie censorship. Providing a detailed picture of the interaction of sexuality, politics, and public policy, Pippa Holloway ex

Contents:

A decade of new legislation

Disciplining sexual behavior

Diagnosis and treatment : venereal disease as a social problem

Conflict, dissent, and venereal disease control

Birth control and social progress

The Second World War in Richmond : protecting social hygiene

The Second World War in Norfolk : struggling for control

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.

ISBN:

9798890878694

9780807877494

0807877492

OCLC:

637016141