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Author Sippial, Tiffany A.

Title Prostitution, modernity, and the making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920 / Tiffany A. Sippial
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations
Series Envisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Contents Zones of delinquency, zones of desire : locating public women in the walled city, 1840-1868 -- Sex, war, and disease in the tropics : colonial conflict and the Cuban social body, 1868-1886 -- We the horizontals : redefining citizenship and challenging colonial authority, 1886-1890 -- A pearl in the mud : social regeneration, U.S. intervention, and the demise of the colonial order, 1890-1902 -- On the road to moral progress : the new republic and the abolition of regulated prostitution, 1902-1925
Summary Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. The author argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba's struggle to define itself as a modern nation found focus in the social and sexual anxieties surrounding prostitution and its regulation. This book shows how prostitution became a prism through which Cuba's hopes and fears were refracted. Widespread debate about prostitution created a forum in which issues of public morality, urbanity, modernity, and national identity were discussed with consequences not only for the capital city of Havana, but also for the entire Cuban nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-227) and index
Notes English
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Subject Prostitution -- Cuba -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba.
Prostitution
Social conditions
social sciences.
SUBJECT Cuba -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject Cuba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013015619
ISBN 9781469612706
1469612704
9781469608952
1469608952