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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 133–151.
Published: 01 May 2024
... health officials demolished tenement housing for plumbing violations and followed with the compulsory quarantining of sex workers, couched in concerns about venereal disease. The sexual policing of Black sex workers by local, state, and military authorities was underpinned by discourses that imagined...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 32–58.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Black GIs and Liberian women defied the racist segregationist logic used by American military leaders to police Black GIs’ sexuality elsewhere during the war. USAFIL officials consequently racialized venereal disease and prostitution to justify confining and regulating Black Liberian women’s bodies...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 95–118.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., gender, and sexuality emblematized by the rise of identity-based neighborhood politics throughout the postwar period, and how these politics interface with the reterritorialization of the welfare state and the advent of community policing. The article historicizes several Stonewall-era gay organizations...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 277–284.
Published: 01 October 2005
... to scholarship
on the state that ignores sexual matters, they are important additions to a growing
body of work that examines the signifi cance of sexuality in the histories of three
overlapping and intersecting formations: the national security state, the police state...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2024
... and the criminalization of reproductive rights in Latin America, sexual policing in South Africa, and incarceration in the United States during the AIDS epidemic, to name a few. These diverse histories of activism illustrate how gender and sexuality—in their historically and culturally specific forms—are consistently...
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (112): 89–99.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and there was a history of policing “sexual deviants” on the basis of such accusations, the discourse of “moral renovation” inadvertently opened the door for gay and lesbian activists to create counterdiscourses and participate in transnational countermovements. In both their pronouncements to the national public...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 1–12.
Published: 01 October 2005
...
it is important to understand the intertwined histories of homophobia, misogyny,
xenophobia, and the role of the modern imperial state. David K. Johnson’s The
Lavender Scare recounts the history of the sexual policing of U.S. government
employees; Eithne Luibhéid’s Entry...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 203–208.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Sexuality," unpub- Asians in Different Guises
lished paper; 1994. Carby, H., Allison, A., Nightwork, Sexuality,
"Policing the Black Woman's Body Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity in
in an Urban Context," Critical u Tokyo Hostess Club; Yoshirnoto, B.,
Znquiry 18 (1992): 739-55. Kitchen...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 96–105.
Published: 01 October 2016
... brings together cases that illustrate the ways in which black women
have also been construed as “dangerous” and “criminal,” in addition to more inter-
sectional concerns such as being penalized for defending themselves against domes-
tic violence and having their sexualities policed.9...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 211–234.
Published: 01 May 2006
... in dem-
onstrating, much like Levine’s, how much material there is on unauthorized sexuali-
ties in imperial sources if anyone bothers to look.20
If sexual policing was a high-stakes game in the Victorian British empire
that contributed to narrativizing the story of the British nation and its...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (120): 183–203.
Published: 01 October 2014
... that
the aforementioned Miguel Santanna Xavier is homosexual.”2
Several themes converge here, each consistently represented in the police
work of this place and period: heightened anxiety about communist “subversive
activities,” homosex as a rationalized subject of state surveillance, and sexual devi...
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Radical History Review (1982) 1982 (26): 89–101.
Published: 01 October 1982
...: there was to be no more than one client
per woman, and prostitutes were not to share beds with each other.
It seems very unlikely that these regulations were enforced, and we
should not exaggerate police meddling in people's sexual lives. Adminis-
trative records show the police were very reluctant to enter...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 166–187.
Published: 01 May 1995
...
caught in the act, in public spaces-likewise shared deep personal
ties to an evangelical tradition. Elected officials, concerned with the
state's expanding role in policing sexual morality, relied on religious
precepts as guides to constructing public policy. Law enforcers and
judicial...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 155–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
... [I’m] selling my body, they [police] took something [my money]. . . . [I would] feel embarrassed. Both the police officers and sex workers I encountered understood decriminalization as the removal of the state’s ability to arrest and use violence to prevent people from selling sexual services...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 81–110.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to protest the police, an event that garnered international attention. 9 After 1985, rights-based activism spread to other parts of the globe and led to the formation of transnational and regional alliances of prostitute rights advocates. 10 While inspired by gay and sexual liberation movements, early...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 200–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... The Australian political scientist John Ballard noted that Australia, like other Commonwealth nations, had gradually adopted the logic of the Wolfenden report, which called for the withdrawal of active policing of consensual sexual activities, such as sex work. Further, epidemiologists were widely reported...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 61–85.
Published: 01 January 2008
...,” Radical History Review 62 (1995): 104 – 34.
4. “A Report To Our Neighbors,” flyer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Records,
1970 – 2000, Collection 7301, Box 48, Folder 4, Human Sexuality Collection, Kroch
Library, Cornell University; “Police Pay Respect to Angels,” The Villager, March...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 130–153.
Published: 01 January 2024
... and sexist state practices” shape “the density and velocity” of the harms sex workers (and other “sexually policed” people) face, writes Anne Gray Fischer. 10 The sex worker theorist and abolitionist Chanelle Gallant told me that reckoning with this reality was politically “catalyzing” for her. Organizing...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (138): 82–107.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police (DIPPBA) archive evinces traces of both normative and nonnormative gender and sexual practices in its surveillance reporting, highlighting how the sex/gender politics of who counts as a subversive target of state surveillance remained relevant to security forces across...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 145–157.
Published: 01 January 2008
... groups — including
nontransgender gays, lesbians, and bisexuals — who contested heterosexist privilege.
However, we also needed to name the ways that homosexuality, as a sexual orienta-
tion category based on constructions of gender it shared with the dominant culture,
sometimes had more in common...
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