The company they kept: migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
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1. Verfasser: Putnam, Lara (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2002
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index
The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s
In the 19th century, migrants from the USA, across the Caribbean and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, drawn by the established banana plantations and economic booms, creating a very mixed population. This work explores the effects of this change on gender, kinship and community
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 303 pages)
ISBN:0807862231
9780807862230

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