Sexual Question - A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s

Informationen zum Autor Paulo Drinot is Associate Professor of Latin American history at University College London. He is the author of The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State (2011); editor of Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America (2010), Peru in Theory (2014), and La Patria Nueva (2018); and co-editor of Más allá de la dominación y la resistencia (2005), The Great Depression in Latin America (2014), Comics and Memory in Latin America (2017), and The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule (2017). Klappentext Exploring links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its politics in Peru. Zusammenfassung Exploring the links between sexuality! society! and state formation! this is the first history of prostitution and its regulation in Peru. Scholars and students interested in Latin American history! the history of gender and sexuality! and the history of medicine and public health will find Drinot's study engaging and thoroughly researched. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Regulating prostitution; 2. Protecting men; 3. Policing women; 4. Medicalizing sin; 5. Combating venereal disease; 6. Abolishing vice.

Product details

• Authors: Paulo Drinot, Paulo (University College London) Drinot, Drinot Paulo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108493123
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49312-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Peru, 20th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / General, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Medicine, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry