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Policing Sexuality

The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI

Jessica R. Pliley

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ISBN 9780674368118

Publication Date: 11/03/2014

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304 pages

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Jessica R. Pliley is Assistant Professor of Women’s History at Texas State University.

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Read an excerpt from Policing Sexuality at PopMatters
Read Jessica Pliley’s openDemocracy essay on the U.S. government’s history of using anti-trafficking laws to criminalize immigrant women
At Time Magazine, read Pliley’s essay on how the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, signed into law in September 2014, supports foster care reform through the lens of reducing sex trafficking
Listen to Jessica Pliley discuss the Mann Act on Texas Public Radio’s The Source
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