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