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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 531–532.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Nichole Sanders Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880 – 1930 . By Hayes Anne . Latin American Studies . New York : Routledge , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 227 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2009...
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Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City
Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Pablo Piccato Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City . By Bliss Katherine Elaine . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index . xv , 243...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 165.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Kristin Ruggiero Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina . By Guy Donna J. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1991 . Photographs. Map. Graphs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . ix , 260 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1993...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 738–740.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Adam Warren The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s . By Paulo Drinot . Cambridge Latin American Studies . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv, 313 pp. Paper, $31.99 . Copyright © 2021...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (4): 529–553.
Published: 01 November 1992
...William E. French 53 Mary Gibson draws similar conclusions in her study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy. See Prostitution and the State in Italy , 22. 54 The term is found in “Educar a la mujer para el hogar,” El Correo , Sept. 3, 1903, p. 2. 55 Doctor Salustio, “La...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 431–443.
Published: 01 August 2011
... with eugenics, especially the state’s sterilization statute, was intimately connected to concerns about prostitution, sexual health, and working-class vigor. This article highlights an unexplored dimension of society and medicine in Latin America and raises questions about the orientation and limits...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 593–594.
Published: 01 August 2020
... by Duke University Press 2020 Yarfitz's book is a strong contribution to the growing historiography of ethnicity, gender, and prostitution in Latin America. Because of its international focus, this work, more than others, engages with the ongoing debates about the nature of sex work, victimization...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 February 1999
... transmitted disease. Gastélum argued that Catholic “false modesty” fostered both a “cult of masculinity” and a sexual double standard that encouraged married men to pursue sexual relations with prostitutes in brothels, while their wives remained monogamous at home. Religiosity and prudishness, Gastélum said...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2010
... . Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 In summary, Marín’s work is an invitation to continue to research this topic from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, not only in the regional Costa Rican environment but in all Central America. This study on prostitution and socially...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 559–561.
Published: 01 August 2021
... University Press 2021 With El dinero no es todo: Compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX , Patricio Simonetto intervenes in the robust historiography of prostitution in Argentina and Latin America, a field pioneered by Donna Guy's book and enriched, in recent years, by the work of Tiffany...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... prostitution. 1 Twenty-four years old at the time, Rosales was the mother of Contreras's four-year-old daughter. Contreras was 42 and lived at the military base in Puerto San José, Guatemala's oldest port town located on the Pacific coastline. He demanded that the jefe político order Rosales to give him...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 623–652.
Published: 01 August 2001
.... The Mexican press compared him with Jack the Ripper, who killed five prostitutes in London in late 1888. However, unlike his British contemporary, whose true identity is unknown, Guerrero did nothing to hide his, and for several years he remained active and unpunished. He was finally arrested in 1888...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 735–736.
Published: 01 November 1997
... unusual insights into the perhaps extraordinary events of “marginal” people —peasants, prostitutes, artisans, heroin addicts, and outlaws. The volume, moreover, transcends the personal stories of cultural history and begins to provide a sense of how the study of national identity might be reconceptualized...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 550–551.
Published: 01 August 2008
... on their heavily indigenous and peripheral city. Oaxacan elites began remaking urban spaces, trying to control artisans, women, and workers, regulating prostitution, and establishing new public rituals intended to validate and celebrate their own rule. They had buildings erected, streets created, and social...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 552–553.
Published: 01 August 2011
... on the supremacy of white culture. After 1902 Cubans reordered their colonial compass to incorporate Spanish elements (both residents and cultural aspects) into the national culture. Hepke explores studies on prostitution from the early twentieth century to examine the theories and methodologies deployed by health...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 721–722.
Published: 01 November 2011
... often focused on prostitutes or novelists. Indeed, Argentine Jewish prostitution is probably the aspect of Jewish women’s lives that has attracted most attention on the part of scholars, writers, and filmmakers. Deutsch does not ignore the disproportionate number of Jewish prostitutes in Buenos Aires...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 February 2007
... of prostitution in the nitrate region of Tarapacá during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He questions whether social class is a useful category in the study of prostitution, since prostitution was not unique to the working class. Gender, he argues, proves much more analytically useful than...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 May 1999
... the regulation of alcohol, prostitution, gambling, vagrancy, and public space. 19 In Chihuahua and elsewhere, this process of moral reform and state formation was at the same time a gendered project, with the private sphere of the family, including strictly defined roles for men and women, seen...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 2020
... excellent studies of prostitution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America exist, but such works are sparse for the colonial period. Despite the prodigious and admirable growth in scholarly literature on gender in the colonial period, the lack of abundant documentation meant that studies of New...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 345–347.
Published: 01 May 2018
...” and of Panamanians for the “masculine power, modernity, and glamour of the American presence” (p. 129). While condoning the use of Panama's brothels by GIs, American officials discouraged dating and marriage with Panamanian working-class women (by the 1940s most registered prostitutes in Panama were foreigners) (p...
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