Wednesday, March 28, 2007

New Book by Pippa Holloway (History faculty)

Holloway, Pippa. Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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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 explores how these measures were passed and enforced.

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