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Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires - Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina (Paperback, New Ed)
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Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires - Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Engendering Latin America
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A study of prostitution necessarily examines questions of power,
class, gender, and public health. In "Sex and Danger in Buenos
Aires" these questions combine with particular force. During most
of the time covered in this provocative book, from the late
nineteenth century well into the twentieth, prostitution was legal
in Argentina. Fears and anxieties concerning the effect of female
sexual commerce on family and nation were rampant.
Donna J. Guy looks at many aspects of the debate that followed an
escalating demand for prostitutes by Argentines and European
immigrants. She discusses the widespread fear of white slavery, the
merits of medically supervised municipal houses of prostitution,
the rights of local governments to restrict the civil liberties of
citizens and foreigners, the censorship of literature and music
dealing with the plight of prostitutes, and the potential
criminality of unsupervised working women who might abandon their
families. Guy also describes attempts to deal with female
prostitution: rehabilitation, modifications of municipal bordello
laws, and medical programs to prevent the spread of venereal
disease. She makes clear that the treatment of "marginal" women by
liberal politicians and doctors helped promoted policies of
repression and censorship that would later be extended to other
unacceptable social groups. Her study of how both local and
national government in Argentina dealt with these women reveals
important links between gender, politics, and economics.
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