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Profit and Passion : Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico /

"This book recounts four centuries of the history of women labeled public women, whores, and prostitutes in New Spain's archival records and works of literature from Spain and Mexico. Performing conventional gender roles, women resisted the archival inscription of these labels, so this com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Germeten, Nicole von (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bawds and brothels
  • From whores to prostitutes
  • Respectable mistresses
  • Courtesans and their lovers
  • Streetwalkers and the police
  • Multiple prostitute identities
  • Selling sisters, saving the family.