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Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City

Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City

Bliss, Katherine Elaine

Paperback

Series: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revoluti

General World HistoryMexican HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0271021268
ISBN13: 9780271021263
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Sep 15 2001
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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.

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