Profit and Passion : Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico /

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 terminolo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: von Germeten, Nicole (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]
Temas:
Prostitutes > Mexico > History.
HISTORY / Latin America / General.
bishops.
colonial documents.
courts.
disgruntled husbands.
gender.
history of sexuality.
how women are affected.
inquisitors.
jurists.
kings.
labels of ill repute.
law enforcement.
literature.
magistrates.
modern global transactional sex.
modern spain.
new history.
prosecuted women.
prostitutes.
public women.
transformation.
whores.
women.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Bawds and Brothels
  • 2. From Whores to Prostitutes
  • 3. Respectable Mistresses
  • 4. Courtesans and Their Lovers
  • 5. Streetwalkers and the Police
  • 6. Multiple Prostitute Identities
  • 7. Selling Sex, Saving the Family
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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