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100 1 0 _aRodríguez García, Magaly
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245 0 0 _aBeware of Pity: The League of Nations’ Treatment of Prostitution
260 _c2021.
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520 _aThis article analyzes the League of Nations’ support of eugenic ideas. The League’s anti-prostitution campaigns can be understood as an experiment in internationalism, as it stretched its mandate to tackle an issue that had hitherto been regarded as a national problem. The organization built a web of experts that circulated various ideas around the “mental deficiency” of prostitutes. As such, the League was not an exception in a period in which biological understandings of crime and deviancy were common. What is surprising is that the League succeeded in concealing its flirting with eugenics from both contemporary critics and present-day scholars.
690 _aTrafficking
690 _aEugenics
690 _aInternational Organizations
690 _aProstitution
690 _aAbolitionism
690 _aTrafficking
690 _aEugenics
690 _aInternational Organizations
690 _aProstitution
690 _aAbolitionism
786 0 _nMonde(s) | o 19 | 1 | 2021-06-14 | p. 97-117 | 2261-6268
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes-2021-1-page-97?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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