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Compromised Positions

Name: Compromised Positions
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press
SKU: 04563590
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by Katherine Elaine Bliss

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001
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To illuminate the complex cultural foundations of state formation in modern Mexico, Compromised Positions explains how and why female prostitution became politicized in the context of revolutionary social reform between 1910 and 1940. Focusing on the public debates over legalized sexual commerce and the spread of sexually transmitted disease in the first half of the twentieth century, Katherine Bliss argues that political change was compromised time and again by reformers' own antiquated ideas about gender and class, by prostitutes' outrage over official attempts to undermine their livelihood, and by clients' unwillingness to forgo visiting brothels despite revolutionary campaigns to promote monogamy, sexual education, and awareness of the health risks associated with sexual promiscuity.In the Mexican public's imagination, the prostitute symbolized the corruption of the old regime even as her redemption represented the new order's potential to dramatically alter gender relations through social policy. Using medical records, criminal case files, and letters from prostitutes and their patrons to public officials, Compromised Positions reveals how the contradictory revolutionary imperatives of individual freedom and public health dashed in the effort to eradicate prostitution and craft a model of morality suitable for leading Mexico into the modern era.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

45.81 €

Full title: Compromised Positions
Subtitle: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City
Author: Katherine Elaine Bliss
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
EAN: 9780271021263
ISBN: 0271021268
ID: 04563590
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Weight: 434 g
Dimensions: 231 × 154 × 18 mm
Date of publishing: 15. September 2001