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Paperback Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women Book

ISBN: 0700631887

ISBN13: 9780700631889

Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women

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Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. In 1917, the Kansas legislature passed Chapter 205, a law that gave the state Board of Health broad powers to quarantine people for disease. State authorities quickly began enforcing Chapter 205 to control...

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