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Female Prostitution in Costa Rica - Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930 (Paperback)
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Female Prostitution in Costa Rica - Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930 (Paperback)
Series: Latin American Studies
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This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the
Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of
the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the
consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution
in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands
due to differential economic, social, and political development. In
the periphery of Puntarenas, the development of prostitution
reflected a less stigmatized view of sexual commerce than that of
the highlands, where prostitution, although legal, threatened the
tenets of liberal nationalism based on racial homogeneity and
family values. Women of the highlands were encouraged to reproduce
the nation's "more European" stock of workers and to ensure the
legal transference of property through legal church marriages -
both part of a design to stabilize the coffee exporting project. By
contrast, prostitutes and other working women of Puntarenas, many
immigrants from the "less European" populations of neighboring
regions and most in concubinage, were freer to do what the law
prescribed - register as prostitutes in legitimate trade. Such
regional disparities reveal weaknesses in traditional explanations
of Costa Rican exceptionalism, which have rested on the premise of
cultural homogeneity and have reflected the realities of only one
region of the country. The book advances an alternative explanation
for the development of the nation's more democratic institutions,
situating Costa Rican exceptionalism in the nation's free labor
system, of which the labor prostitute in Puntarenas provides an
example.
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