| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Colonial convictions -- Home fires and domesticity -- Uncommon women and prostitution -- Sexual borderlands -- Courtship and the courts -- Conclusion: from the outskirts of citizenship |
| Summary |
Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In West of Sex, Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide the first coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century, and a truly revelatory look at sexual identity in the borderlands. As Mexicans faced a rising tide of racial intolerance in the American West, some found cracks in the legal system that enabled them to assert their rights as full citiz |
| Analysis |
sex, sexuality, identity, borderlands, american west, mexicans, belonging, race, ethnicity, women, gender, colonialism, marriage, household, domesticity, interracial romance, sexual violence, intimacy, same-sex, homosexuality, gay, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia, prostitution, assault, rape, crime, courts, trials, law, legal system, nonfiction, history |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mexicans -- Sexual behavior -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
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Trials (Sex crimes) -- Southwest, New -- Cases
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Sex crimes -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
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Sex -- Social aspects -- United States
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Mexicans -- Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century
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Marginality, Social -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sexual Abuse & Harassment.
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Marginality, Social
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Mexicans -- Sexual behavior
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Mexicans -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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Sex crimes
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Sex -- Social aspects
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Trials (Sex crimes)
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| SUBJECT |
Southwest, New -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
New Southwest
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226532738 |
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0226532739 |
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1280126272 |
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9781280126277 |
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