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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Findlay, Eileen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
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.