Oregon's Others by Kimberly Jensen - 9780295752587

University of Washington Press

Oregon's OthersGender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century\nAuthor(s): Kimberly Jensen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295752587, 978-0295752587\nSynopsis\nFinalist for the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards, sponsored by Literary Arts\n\nNativism, pseudoscience, and the campaign against the enemy withinIn the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy others, combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. In Oregons Others, Kimberly Jensen analyzes the processes that shaped the growing surveillance state of the era and the compelling personal stories that tell its history. The exclusionary and invasive practices ranged from multiple wartime registrations for women and the registration of e.