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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Всеобщая история</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8127</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-833X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">51044</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8127-2026-18-2-175-185</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">WMUXBR</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Ideas and politics in history</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Идеи и политика в истории</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The women’s question and the social hygiene movement in American society during the Progressive era</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Женский вопрос и движение за социальную гигиену в американском обществе Прогрессивной эры</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-8239</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">5879-5486</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Vershinina</surname><given-names>Daria B.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Вершинина</surname><given-names>Дарья Борисовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат исторических наук, доцент кафедры истории и археологии, историко-политологический факультет</p></bio><email>daryapros@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Perm State National Research University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-07-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>175</fpage><lpage>185</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-07-06"><day>06</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Vershinina D.B.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Вершинина Д.Б.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Vershinina D.B.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Вершинина Д.Б.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/51044">https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/51044</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The study analyzes the social hygiene movement in the United States during the Progressive Era in its relationship with the women's question. The study demonstrates how, in the context of large-scale social reforms and the transformation of Victorian ideals of femininity, a new approach to regulating public health and morality emerged. The movement, which united religious reformers, feminists, and medical experts, simultaneously challenged established moral norms in American society through a critique of double standards and became an instrument of repressive biopolitics aimed at controlling female sexuality. Based on an analysis of the movement's ideological tenets and actual practices, this article demonstrates how prostitution was redefined from a moral issue to a public health threat, justifying forced examinations and the isolation of women accused of spreading dangerous diseases. Thus, despite its progressive goals, the social hygiene movement reproduced patriarchal models of control over women.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Исследование посвящено анализу движения за социальную гигиену в США периода Прогрессивной эры в его связи с женским вопросом. Исследование показывает, как в контексте масштабных социальных реформ и трансформации викторианских идеалов женственности сформировался новый подход к регулированию общественного здоровья и морали. Движение, объединившее религиозных реформаторов, феминисток и медицинских экспертов, одновременно бросало вызов устоявшимся моральным нормам американского общества через критику двойных стандартов и стало инструментом репрессивной биополитики, направленной на контроль над женской сексуальностью. На основе анализа идеологических установок и реальных практик движения продемонстрировано, как проституция была переопределена из моральной проблемы в угрозу общественному здоровью, что позволило оправдать принудительные осмотры и изолирование женщин, обвиненных в распространении опасных заболеваний. Таким образом, сделан вывод, что, несмотря на прогрессивные цели, движение за социальную гигиену воспроизводило патриархальные модели контроля над женщинами.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>the United States at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries</kwd><kwd>social vices</kwd><kwd>women's activism</kwd><kwd>biopolitics</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>США рубежа XIX-XX вв.</kwd><kwd>социальные болезни</kwd><kwd>женский активизм</kwd><kwd>биополитика</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Schlesinger AM. Political and Social Growth of the United States. 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