Prostitution, modernity, and the making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920 /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2013]
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| Series: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469608952_sippial |
Table of 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.