Imposing decency : the politics of sexuality and race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 /
Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, attempts at reforming marriage, and working-class ideas about...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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Colección: | American encounters/global interactions.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Respectable Ponce : deciphering the codes of power, 1855-1898
- Motherhood, marriage, and morality : male liberals and bourgeois feminists, 1873-1898
- Decent men and unruly women : prostitution in Ponce, 1890-1900
- Marriage and divorce in the formation of the new colonial order, 1898-1910
- Slavery, sexuality, and the early labor movement, 1900-1917
- Saving democracy : debating prostitution during World War I
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations and acronyms.