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Vice Patrol
- Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
Engelsk Paperback

Vice Patrol

- Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
Engelsk Paperback

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In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors.   In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community’s rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life in the twentieth century and disputes about police power that continue today.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
360
ISBN-13:
9780226769783
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022676978X
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Udg. Dato:
28 maj 2021
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
28 maj 2021
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