Eva Payne
@EvaBPayne
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Historian - U.S., gender, and sexuality - University of Mississippi Assistant Professor - she/her
Joined January 2012
Had a great conversation with Miranda Melcher for the @NewBooksNetwork !
.@EvaBPayne, author of Empire of Purity, speaks with Miranda Melcher about her new book for @NewBooksNetwork:
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RT @xEmmaAmador: ✨ Very excited that my book proofs have arrived! “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Just…
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The control of women’s bodies, under the guise of protection, has been a crucial part of how US power has operated and expanded on the global stage. Americans’ war on prostitution in the early twentieth century helped to cement this pattern.
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Doing that past is present thing
In this edition of Ideas, Eva Payne delves into the history of the U.S. crusade against prostitution and draws compelling parallels to contemporary issues affecting women. @EvaBPayne #history #politics #sociology
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Come see me tonight @novelmemphis with @CookieWoolner !
This Tuesday (11/12) at 6 pm CST: Please join @novelmemphis in welcoming @EvaBPayne, in conversation with @CookieWoolner, to celebrate the release of her new book Empire of Purity. For more details, visit:
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RT @PrincetonUPress: In Empire of Purity, @evabpayne traces how the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empire. Tying the war…
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I had a great conversation with @JavierMejiaC!
🚨🎙️ Eva Payne introduces 'American sexual exceptionalism'—the idea that Americans view their sexual morality as uniquely superior. This belief fueled punitive anti-prostitution policies that the US exported abroad. Eva tells us more in the latest #EPHPodcast episode!
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RT @euraknot: UPCOMING GUEST ALERT 🚨 Erin Hutchinson is an @aseeestudies and Levin Article Prize winning author, and professor of Soviet hi…
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RT @LowryPressly: Great review of The Right to Oblivion by John Kaag in the Atlantic! It's still very strange & wonderful suddenly to have…
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This book is so brilliant and has really shaped my thinking. Very excited to get a hard copy!!
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RT @BNofil: My book is out today! It's a history of mass incarceration and deportation told through the stories of migrants in American jai…
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RT @NickShepley: I’ve done loads of great interviews this year but this one with @EvaBPayne is one of my favourites:
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I had a great time talking about my new book with @NickShepley!
I am really proud of this episode, I got to speak with @EvaBPayne on her brilliant new book Empire of Purity. Between 1870 and 1930 American citizens and politicians led a global crusade against prostitution. It didn’t end well:
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