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Lvovsky Anna |
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Vice patrol : cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall / / Anna Lvovsky [[electronic resource]] |
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Chicago : , : The University of Chicago Press, , 2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) : 16 halftones |
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Collana |
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Chicago scholarship online |
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Soggetti |
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Male homosexuality - United States - History - 20th century |
Gay people - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
Vice control - United States - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Also issued in print: 2021. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE / When Anyone Can Tell -- TWO / Expert Witnesses on Trial -- THREE / Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice -- FOUR / The Rise of Ethnographic Policing -- FIVE / Peepholes and Perverts -- SIX / The Popular Press and the Gay World -- EPILOGUE -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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