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Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and 'Immorality'
Vice was one of the primary shared interests of the global community at the turn of the twentieth century. Anti-vice activists worked to combat noxious substances such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, and 'immoral' sexual activities such as prostitution. Nearly all of these activists approached the issue of vice by expressing worries about the body, its physical health, and functionality. By situating anti-vice politics in their broader historical contexts, Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950 sheds fresh light on the initiatives of various actors, organizations and institutions which have previously been treated primarily within national and regional boundaries. Looking at anti-vice policy from both social and cultural historical perspectives, it illuminates the centrality of regulating vice in imperial and national modernization projects. The contributors argue that vice and vice regulation constitute an ideal topic for global history, because they bridge the gap between discourse and practice, and state and civil society.
344 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 4, 2016
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April 4, 2023
so i read this book because a sex worker on youtube told me to. it was a powerful book & i will probably seek to get my own copy to put alongside "the end of policing" by alex s vitale.
Ugh, I need to reorganize how I give stars out because this is a super good book. like it explains how the military is pop culture & examines a lot of colonial history. this is also important because anti-vice mentalities are part of how mental illness (such as addictions) gets treated.
the different essays have authors who have varying bluntnesses. the one about how white immigrant women were counted as "white slaves" regarding interstate travel. however based on 2 sentences it kept separated by a lot, apparently, the approval came from using the law to police interracial marriage. so, this was helpful with learning how "white slaves" only applied to hookers as opposed to all labor.
another essay, one about occupied korea & occupied japan bluntly said that a head doctor blamed races of color instead of education discrimination for purposes of soldiers repeatedly catching "VD". so yeah, this informed me how much the korean war influenced my parents, which was depressing but whatever. the opening example also shows how the sex-based categories for sexual attraction were used to normalize child rape in addition to adult-on-adult-rape. so basically, the white supremacist pericisheteronormative patriarchy of healthcare in occupied korea & occupied japan means that public health was something the colonized were surveilled for back in the day when it was STIs instead of SARS. Basically the covid denialists are whorephobes & colonizers who think wearing a mask AKA a condom for your spit is degrading, because USA already was derelict on universal healthcare. So yeah, basically a summary is that in USA we have to study military life because otherwise we don't know the pop culture, the political overton window's norms & thereby what will backfire on us when we're stuck with racists.
the earlier essays talked about communes & nudism & other kind of hippy stuff & how those were connected with fascists & that was rather eye-opening.
The concluding chapter (#14) was the most offensive. some very bad analysis about communism being a religion & acting as if conservative political islam wasn't connected to christian supremacist colonization (basically that part of the final chapter was CIA denialism basically, in addition to how milton friedman got framed by the chapter #14 author considering milton friedman was given the country of chile to play with & that had sadist results). like it was so bad that this chapter was why I took off a star from a would've-been 5 star book. Seriously, some of the other chapters will have to be interpreted with the knowledge that this sort of censorship was involved. Do as I did & number the points as you go so that distance between the points can then be reconciled.
i'll still probably by it if I can get it for less than 10 bucks.
Ugh, I need to reorganize how I give stars out because this is a super good book. like it explains how the military is pop culture & examines a lot of colonial history. this is also important because anti-vice mentalities are part of how mental illness (such as addictions) gets treated.
the different essays have authors who have varying bluntnesses. the one about how white immigrant women were counted as "white slaves" regarding interstate travel. however based on 2 sentences it kept separated by a lot, apparently, the approval came from using the law to police interracial marriage. so, this was helpful with learning how "white slaves" only applied to hookers as opposed to all labor.
another essay, one about occupied korea & occupied japan bluntly said that a head doctor blamed races of color instead of education discrimination for purposes of soldiers repeatedly catching "VD". so yeah, this informed me how much the korean war influenced my parents, which was depressing but whatever. the opening example also shows how the sex-based categories for sexual attraction were used to normalize child rape in addition to adult-on-adult-rape. so basically, the white supremacist pericisheteronormative patriarchy of healthcare in occupied korea & occupied japan means that public health was something the colonized were surveilled for back in the day when it was STIs instead of SARS. Basically the covid denialists are whorephobes & colonizers who think wearing a mask AKA a condom for your spit is degrading, because USA already was derelict on universal healthcare. So yeah, basically a summary is that in USA we have to study military life because otherwise we don't know the pop culture, the political overton window's norms & thereby what will backfire on us when we're stuck with racists.
the earlier essays talked about communes & nudism & other kind of hippy stuff & how those were connected with fascists & that was rather eye-opening.
The concluding chapter (#14) was the most offensive. some very bad analysis about communism being a religion & acting as if conservative political islam wasn't connected to christian supremacist colonization (basically that part of the final chapter was CIA denialism basically, in addition to how milton friedman got framed by the chapter #14 author considering milton friedman was given the country of chile to play with & that had sadist results). like it was so bad that this chapter was why I took off a star from a would've-been 5 star book. Seriously, some of the other chapters will have to be interpreted with the knowledge that this sort of censorship was involved. Do as I did & number the points as you go so that distance between the points can then be reconciled.
i'll still probably by it if I can get it for less than 10 bucks.
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