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West of sex : making Mexican America, 1900-1930 /

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In West of Sex, Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide the first coherent picture of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Pablo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Colonial convictions
  • Home fires and domesticity
  • Uncommon women and prostitution
  • Sexual borderlands
  • Courtship and the courts
  • Conclusion: from the outskirts of citizenship.