Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950

Jessica R. Pliley is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender History at Texas State University, San Marcos. Robert Kramm-Masaoka is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang University, Seoul. Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Modern Global History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH-Zürich).

• 1. Introduction Jessica R. Pliley, Robert Kramm-Masaoka and Harald Fischer-Tiné; Part I. Health and the Body: 2. Modernity, vice and the problem of nakedness Philippa Levine; 3. 'Godless Edens' - surveillance, eroticized anarchy and 'depraved communities' in Britain and the wider world, 1890–1930 Antony Taylor; 4. Physical culture as 'natural cure' - Eugen Sandow's global campaign against the diseases and vices of civilization, c.1890–1920 Carey A. Watt; Part II. Drinks and Drugs: 5. The specter of degeneration - alcohol and race in West Africa in the early twentieth century Charles Ambler; 6. A question of social medicine or racial hygiene? Temperance discourse in Bulgaria, 1920–40 Nikolay Kamenov; 7. Threats to Empire - illicit distillation, venereal diseases and colonial disorder in British West Africa, 1930–48 Emmanuel Akyeampong; 8. Medical and criminological constructions of drug addiction in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia Pavel Vasilyev; 9. Cigarette smoking in modern Buenos Aires - the sudden change in a century-old continuity Diego Armus; Part III. Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: 10. The FBI's white slave division - the creation of a national regulatory regime to police prostitutes in the United States, 1910–18 Jessica R. Pliley; 11. Anti-vice lives: peopling the archives of prostitution in interwar India Stephen Legg; 12. China's prostitution regulation system in an international context, 1900–37 Elizabeth Remick; 13. 'Hey, GI, want pretty flower girl?' - venereal disease, sanitation, and geopolitics in US-occupied Japan and Korea, 1945–8 Robert Kramm-Masaoka; 14. Afterword David Courtwright.

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