Gender And Prostitution In Porfirian Mexico City
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Gender And Prostitution In Porfirian Mexico City
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Author : Erica Shae Weatherford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Gender And Prostitution In Porfirian Mexico City written by Erica Shae Weatherford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
This thesis examines prostitution as a debate among Porfirian intellectuals. More specifically, however, this work focuses on the writings of Luis Lara y Pardo. A social hygienist and intellectual of the Porfiriato, Lara y Pardo researched sex work and published his book La prostitution en Mexico in 1908. As the primary source for this intellectual history, the ways in which Lara y Pardo writes about prostitution in Mexico City reveals understandings of class, gender, sexuality, and reform in the Porfirian city. Lara y Pardo wanted to reform the Porfirian system of regulating prostitution and wrote about its relationship to various other perceived social ills of Mexico. Thus, his work is a reflection of intellectuals' desires for reform before the Mexican Revolution.
Compromised Positions
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Author : Katherine Elaine Bliss
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Compromised Positions written by Katherine Elaine Bliss and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with History categories.
To illuminate the complex cultural foundations of state formation in modern Mexico, Compromised Positions explains how and why female prostitution became politicized in the context of revolutionary social reform between 1910 and 1940. Focusing on the public debates over legalized sexual commerce and the spread of sexually transmitted disease in the first half of the twentieth century, Katherine Bliss argues that political change was compromised time and again by reformers' own antiquated ideas about gender and class, by prostitutes' outrage over official attempts to undermine their livelihood, and by clients' unwillingness to forgo visiting brothels despite revolutionary campaigns to promote monogamy, sexual education, and awareness of the health risks associated with sexual promiscuity. In the Mexican public's imagination, the prostitute symbolized the corruption of the old regime even as her redemption represented the new order's potential to dramatically alter gender relations through social policy. Using medical records, criminal case files, and letters from prostitutes and their patrons to public officials, Compromised Positions reveals how the contradictory revolutionary imperatives of individual freedom and public health clashed in the effort to eradicate prostitution and craft a model of morality suitable for leading Mexico into the modern era.
The Oldest Professions In Revolutionary Times
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Author : Pamela Jeniffer Fuentes Peralta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Oldest Professions In Revolutionary Times written by Pamela Jeniffer Fuentes Peralta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Profit And Passion
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Author : Nicole von Germeten
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-04-06
Profit And Passion written by Nicole von Germeten and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-06 with History categories.
Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology for prosecuted women voiced by kings, jurists, magistrates, inquisitors, and bishops, as well as disgruntled husbands and neighbors, foreshadows the increasing regulation, criminalization, and polarizing politics of modern global transactional sex. The author’s analysis concentrates on the words women spoke in depositions and court appearances, and how their language changed over time, pointing to a broader transformation in the history of sexuality, gender, and the ways in which courts and law enforcement processes affected women.
Selling Sex In The City A Global History Of Prostitution 1600s 2000s
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-08-28
Selling Sex In The City A Global History Of Prostitution 1600s 2000s written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with History categories.
Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.
Easy Women
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Author : Debra A. Castillo
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1998
Easy Women written by Debra A. Castillo and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Addresses the topic of prostitution and "easy women" in Mexican literature. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the "easy woman" in their works. In each example the transgressive woman -- marked by an active sexuality -- serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women's professional and personal lives. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.
Sex In Revolution
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Author : Jocelyn H. Olcott
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2006
Sex In Revolution written by Jocelyn H. Olcott and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
A collection of histories showing how women participated in Mexican revolutionary and postrevolutionary state formation by challenging conventions of sexuality, work, family life, and religious practice.
Global Perspectives On Prostitution And Sex Trafficking
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Author : Rochelle L. Dalla
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-04-08
Global Perspectives On Prostitution And Sex Trafficking written by Rochelle L. Dalla and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-08 with Social Science categories.
This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also includes a 'global' section, which includes chapters that are globally relevant — rather than those devoted to a particular country or geographic location. The content of each volume, as well as each chapter, reflects great diversity — diversity in focus, writing style, and personal position regarding the commercial sex industry. Diversity extends to the contributors, who are comprised of international scholars, service providers, and policy advocates representing a variety of fields and disciplines, with distinct and varied frames of reference and theoretical underpinnings with regard to the commercial sex industry. In addition to addressing aspects of the CSI across the globe, as impacted by geography and culture, authors have also provided a spectrum of implications of their work — implications ranging from continued scholarship and research, to legislative maneuvers and policy change, to suggestions for collaboration across NGOS, fieldworkers, clinicians, and service providers. Together, the 34 expertly-crafted chapters provide a wealth of knowledge from which to more deeply appreciate and contemplate the global commercial sex industry. By uniting contributors from around the world, this book aims to build a relatively common knowledge base on global prostitution and sex trafficking. Viewed from a unified, global perspective, it is hoped that this common understanding will lead to a grounded theory and integrated view with applicable suggestions for international efforts aimed at intervention, service, education, and continued scholarship.
Economic And Social Obligations Of Women Street Prostitutes In Southern Mexico
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Author : Jayne Howell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Economic And Social Obligations Of Women Street Prostitutes In Southern Mexico written by Jayne Howell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Prostitutes categories.
"Prostitution is increasingly a form of employment for women with limited formal education and schooling (United Nations 1995), and is on the rise in contemporary Mexico as a response to changing economic conditions (Chant 1997). Mexican prostitutes are widely viewed as "lazy" women who "enjoy working on their backs." Yet an alternative view is that this job provides higher remuneration than other informal sector jobs. Using ethnographic data collected among ambulantes (literally, streetwalkers) in the non-industrialized Mexican provincial capital of Oaxaca City, this article explores women's motives for prostituting, work conditions, nature of the local labor market, issues of violence and disease, and the stigma associated with prostitution. The findings from this study indicate that, although ambulantes are aware of the health risks, violence, and social stigma associated with this job and lifestyle, they consider prostitution and undesireable yet viable way to support themselves and to fulfill their roles as mothers"--T.p.
Working Women In Mexico City
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Author : Susie S. Porter
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Working Women In Mexico City written by Susie S. Porter and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with History categories.
The years from the Porfiriato to the post-Revolutionary regimes were a time of rising industrialism in Mexico that dramatically affected the lives of workers. Much of what we know about their experience is based on the histories of male workers; now Susie Porter takes a new look at industrialization in Mexico that focuses on women wage earners across the work force, from factory workers to street vendors. Working Women in Mexico City offers a new look at this transitional era to reveal that industrialization, in some ways more than revolution, brought about changes in the daily lives of Mexican women. Industrialization brought women into new jobs, prompting new public discussion of the moral implications of their work. Drawing on a wealth of material, from petitions of working women to government factory inspection reports, Porter shows how a shifting cultural understanding of working women informed labor relations, social legislation, government institutions, and ultimately the construction of female citizenship. At the beginning of this period, women worked primarily in the female-dominated cigarette and clothing factories, which were thought of as conducive to protecting feminine morality, but by 1930 they worked in a wide variety of industries. Yet material conditions transformed more rapidly than cultural understandings of working women, and although the nation's political climate changed, much about women's experiences as industrial workers and street vendors remained the same. As Porter shows, by the close of this period women's responsibilities and rights of citizenship—such as the right to work, organize, and participate in public debate—were contingent upon class-informed notions of female sexual morality and domesticity. Although much scholarship has treated Mexican women's history, little has focused on this critical phase of industrialization and even less on the circumstances of the tortilleras or market women. By tracing the ways in which material conditions and public discourse about morality affected working women, Porter's work sheds new light on their lives and poses important questions for understanding social stratification in Mexican history.