{"id":144849,"date":"2024-11-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=144849"},"modified":"2024-11-10T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T16:50:03","slug":"square-books-presents-eva-payne-in-conversation-with-tess-lefmann-for-empire-of-purity-tuesday-november-19-2024-at-530-pm-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-presents-eva-payne-in-conversation-with-tess-lefmann-for-empire-of-purity-tuesday-november-19-2024-at-530-pm-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books presents Eva Payne in conversation with Tess Lefmann for “Empire of Purity” Tuesday November 19, 2024 at 5:30 pm at Off Square Books\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

University of Mississippi professor Eva Payne in conversation with fellow academic Tess Lefmann for Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empire\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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About the book\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe United States has imposed many things on the world. One of them, Eva\u00a0Payne shows in this sharp, revealing book, was its sexual morality. Empire of\u00a0Purity <\/em>tells the eye-opening story of how the United States tried to eradicate\u00a0sex work\u2014and turn large numbers of women into criminals\u2014on a global\u00a0scale.\u201d\u2014Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire\u00a0<\/em>Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely\u00a0with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political\u00a0and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution\u00a0and trafficking, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a\u00a0cornerstone of civilization and a basis of American exceptionalism. Empire of\u00a0Purity <\/em>traces the history of these efforts, showing how the policing and\u00a0penalization of sexuality was used to justify American interventions around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on archives in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Empire of Purity <\/em>ties the war on sexual vice to American imperial ambitions and a politicization of sexuality that continues to govern both domestic and international policy today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Eva Payne is assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi. Her writing has appeared in publications, such as the Journal of Women’s History and Radical History Review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the conversation partner\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tess Lefmann is an associate professor of social work at the University of Mississippi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Empire of Purity\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
By Eva Payne\u00a0
$35.00\u00a0
Publisher: Princeton University Press\u00a0
ISBN: 9780691256979\u00a0
Contact: Maria Whelan\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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