Compromised positions: prostitution, public health and gender politics in revolutionary Mexico City
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 diseases in the first half of the twentieth century, Katherine Bliss argues that political change was compromised time and again by reformers' 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, sex 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 clashed in the effort to eradicate prostitution and craft a model of morality suitable for leading Mexico into the modern era. |
| Beschreibung: | XV, 243 S. |
| ISBN: | 027102125X |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Prostitution, Sexual Morality, and Reformism in
Revolutionary Mexico City 1
1 The Porfirians City of Pleasure: Prostitutes, Patrons, and
Sexual Propriety 23
2 Revolutionary Capital: Warfare and the Changing Business of
Sexual Commerce 63
3 The Science of Redemption: Syphilis, Sexual Promiscuity, and
Reformism 95
4 Evaluating the Cult of Masculinity: Manliness, Money, and the
Morality of Exchange 127
5 Testing the Limits of Tolerance: The Place of Vice in a
Revolutionary Metropolis 153
6 The End of the Road? Gender and the Politics of Abolition 189
Postscript: The Unredeemed Revolution 207
Bibliography 217
Index 235
Figures and Tables
Figures
1. Maria Villa, alias La Chiquita, shooting Esperanza
La Malaguefla 38
2. Francisco el Chalequero slitting the throat of a prostitute 52
3. Map of the proposed zona de tolerancia and area
businesses affected 68
4. Advertisement for Neo Salvarsan 101
5. Advertisements for physicians who treat secret sicknesses 103
6. Newspaper illustration regarding efforts to study female
delinquency— Presuntas delincuentes 122
7. Advertisement for Testofort 133
8. Two prostitutes on Calle Cuauhtemoctzin in Mexico City,
1934, photographed by Henri Cartier Bresson.
(Henri Cartier Bresson / Magnum Photos) 156
9. Map of the proposed zona de tolerancia 160
10. Cover of the guidebook Mexico de noche 169
11. Advertisement for the Cabaret Venus 171
12. Advertisement for the Cucaracha Cocktail Club 172
13. An advertisement offering reservados 17 4
14. Advertisements for casas recomendables 178
15. Advertisement for the infamous Casa Ruth 180
Tables
1. Prostitutes Reasons for Entering La Vida, 1872 31
2. Prostitutes Occupations, 1904 34
3. Prostitutes Birthplaces, 1904 1905 35
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