127 P - Policing Sexualities

Friday, June 2, 2017: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
BRESL 106 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Susan Cahn, The State University of New York - Buffalo
Unexpected Connections: Women Political Prisoners in Alderson Federal Prison, 1955-1979
Victoria Lynn Measles, The Ohio State University
"Those girls seem to be faster than we are": Black Girls Negotiating and Policing Sexuality in 1930s Washington, D.C.
Miya Carey, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
"Perverted Justice: (Homo)Sexuality and Female Juvenile Delinquency in U.S. Popular Culture, 1920-1940"
Anastasia Jones, University of Toronto
Queer Women in the Second World War in England
Josie Daw, University of Cambridge
I command the right to go places: Twentieth-Century American Girls Demand Bodily Protection from the State
Cara Elliott, College of William & Mary

Session Abstract

This panel explores queerness, sexuality, race, and visibility. Two of the papers look at the experience of female prisoners to discuss female relationships, including friendship and romantic, while including the reality of racial differences. Another two papers look at the role and visibility of queer and transgender women during war, focusing particularly on South Korea and England. There is also a focus on the experience of young girls, including an analysis of black girlhood, and a look at the way young white women used racially charged rhetoric to express the vulnerability of their bodies. The panel gives an analysis of the different ways women have discovered and used their sexual identity.

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