Description |
1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Envisioning Cuba |
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Envisioning Cuba.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Prostitution -- Cuba -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba.
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Prostitution
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Social conditions
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social sciences.
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SUBJECT |
Cuba -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Subject |
Cuba
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2013015619 |
ISBN |
9781469612706 |
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1469612704 |
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9781469608952 |
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1469608952 |
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