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Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI
By Pliley, Jessica R.
- ISBN
- 9780674368118 9780674745100
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ.
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Reviewed on January 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
The White-Slave Traffic Act, commonly known as the Mann Act, was passed in the United States in 1910 and made it a felony to transport any "woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose" across state lines. It was designed to fight a perceived growth of prostitution, especially the trafficking in of women from Europe to America. Pliley (women's history, Univ. of Texas), drawing largely from the records of the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
