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... of the underworld of prostitutes, bordellos, and international white slavery rings. This underworld, in fascinating ways, exacerbated upper- and middle-class fears about the lower class—which included increasing numbers of European immigrants. Guy first looks at prostitution as a facet of Buenos Aires’ growth...

... first discovered our bay, Shakespeare was not yet born; and the Mayflower would not yet leave Southampton for 78 years.” How familiar the sound! But it is not of history of which he talks all the time. He speaks of everything from bordellos to bullfights, fiestas to dust storms, sauce molé...

... violence in the Uruguay/Rio Grande do Sul region. Black-welder compares the relationship between urbanization and criminality with the same period in U. S. history. The fifty years of authorized prostitution and licensed bordellos in Buenos Aires are the object of Guy’s study, in which she traces...

... of Academic Researchers in Brazil has issued a Guide to Research in Rio by Robert M. Levine of Princeton University. Any one planning to do research in Brazil before the end of 1966 is invited to write to one of the co-chairmen: John D. Peterson or Frank McCann Research Group c/o Dr. Diogo Bordello...

..., and medicalization that shaped state intervention and the business of prostitution itself. Regulated since the French intervention (1860s–1940), bordellos were “intensely sociable” places for men (p. 50), a profitable undertaking for madams and corrupt officials, and a headache for hygienists. This paradox...

... by Duke University Press 2018 Unlovely to look at, Agustín Lara rose from playing pianos in bordellos to international stardom. The musical genre that brought Lara to global fame, the bolero, is a slow, romantic, and sentimental form. It lacks the political resonance of the corrido , with its...

... backwardness. By exploring the pronouncements emanating from the halls of economic, clerical, and political power and exposing the goings-on in back alleys and bordellos, this book demonstrates how different elements of Oaxaca’s denizens imagined their city, attempted to shape it, and defined their place...

...; girls from Catholic schools practicing uranismo and fetichismo; male schoolteachers enticing children into homosexual careers; men of the upper classes adopting “Chinoise ” tastes; men and women of ambiguous sexuality socializing at bordellos, styling salons, and upper-class parties. It is curious...

....” In some ways, the barracks functioned as the male equivalent of the bordello. Both were social spaces that attempted to isolate “dangerous” loners from “honorable” households. In the barracks, authorities tried to congregate and supervise men who were considered a threat to the home’s sanctity. The army...

..., the experiments show that close ties between US and Guatemalan medical researchers and institutions persisted. To realize their dreams for the Guatemalan Spring, Guatemalan doctors rendered the country a “bordello” for US researchers seeking medical subjects. 142 Although Guatemala remained dependent...

.... The story was that Jewish girls from Poland, Austria-Hungary, and Russia were seduced by unscrupulous intermediaries and dispatched to bordellos in Buenos Aires—the city of sin —where their services were highly valued. Neither proved nor disproved, this story continued to feed state policies destined...

... it in a capitalist direction. One may interpret his attempts to outlaw bordellos, pimps, cockfighting, gambling, and the consumption of hard liquor and drugs—and similar actions by Plutarco Elías Calles as governor of Sonora (1917-19) and as president (1924-28)—as efforts to impose austere, disciplined values...