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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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 mujer tal como debe ser.” 61 Soledad Acosta de Samper, “La mujer en su casa,” El Correo , Sept. 11, 1905, p. 2. 62...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 3891, file 34. 40 Ibid. The prostitutes’ registration photographs have been the subject of several analyses. See, for example, Patricia Massé, “Photographs of Mexican Prostitutes in 1865,” History of Photography 20, no. 3 (1996); and Sergio González Rodríguez, “Cuerpo, control y mercancía: la...

... of the province of San José between 1860 and 1949 is based on primary sources from newspapers and archives and a broad knowledge of literature produced in Europe and the United States that analyzes prostitution. This book, by Juan José Marín Hernández, received the Costa Rican Premio Nacional Aquileo J...

... 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...

... that they could not count on the women. Cutler reported that “contrary to what might be expected, it proved extremely difficult to obtain prostitutes willing to serve under experimental conditions.” 140 Another researcher expressed surprise that some of the sex workers had left the experiments to marry. 141...

.... 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...

... 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...

.... As a result, Oaxaca’s city leaders found it difficult to impose a foreign-born, metropolitan-delivered idea of modernity and progress on their heavily indigenous and peripheral city. Oaxacan elites began remaking urban spaces, trying to control artisans, women, and workers, regulating prostitution...

... on prostitution from the early twentieth century to examine the theories and methodologies deployed by health care policy makers and intellectuals to discover what led women to prostitution. Again, race played a critical role in shaping Cuba’s public health policies toward prostitution. White elites...

... 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...

... 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...

... as such, they nonetheless surrounded them with pressure.” 29 Such is the case in Rafael Sagredo’s recent book, María Villa (a) La Chiquita, no. 4002 , in which he uses the circumstances surrounding the sensational 1897 murder of one prostitute by another to trace how the press, the judicial system...

... on the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, with attention to different types of transactional sex and the many identities that prostitutes assumed both in the streets and within families. One chapter uses the libros de reos from 1794 to 1798 to paint a picture of sex work's places...

..., sovereignty, public and private morality, and the preservation of their culture. The corruption that accompanied tourism, particularly in the competition for government licenses and contracts to build or run hotels and casinos, together with the growth of prostitution, raised questions about its benefits...