Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920Duke University Press, 1999 - 316 páginas Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, attempts at reforming marriage, and working-class ideas about free love, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to U.S. colonialism. In showing how political projects and alliances in Puerto Rico were affected by racially contingent definitions of "decency" and "disreputability," Findlay argues that attempts at moral reform and the state's repression of "sexually dangerous" women were weapons used in batttles between elite and popular, American and Puerto Rican, and black and white. Based on a thorough analysis of popular and elite discourses found in both literature and official archives, Findlay contends that racialized sexual norms and practices were consistently a central component in the construction of social and political orders. The campaigns she analyzes include an attempt at moral reform by elite male liberals and a movement designed to enhance the family and cleanse urban space that ultimately translated into repression against symbollically darkened prostitutes. Findlay also explores how U.S. officials strove to construct a new colonial order by legalizing divorce and how feminist, labor, and Afro-Puerto Rican political demands escalated after World War I, often focusing on the rehabilitation and defense of prostitutes. Imposing Decency forces us to rethink previous interpretations of political chronologies as well as reigning conceptualizations of both liberalism and the early working-class in Puerto Rico. Her work will appeal to scholars with an interest in Puerto Rican or Latin American studies, sexuality and national identity, women in Latin America, and general women's studies. |
Índice
Respectable Ponce Deciphering the Codes of Power | 18 |
Motherhood Marriage and Morality Male Liberals | 53 |
Decent Men and Unruly Women Prostitution | 77 |
Marriage and Divorce in the Formation of | 110 |
Slavery Sexuality and the Early Labor Movement | 135 |
Conclusion | 202 |
287 | |
309 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 Eileen Findlay Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 Eileen Findlay No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1999 |
Términos y frases comunes
African descent Afro-Puerto Rican AGPR Águila American anarchist Año artisans asserted bourgeois feminists Canta Claro century concubinage consensus Corregimiento Correspondencia court Crim cross-class culture demandando Democracia discourses divorce divorcio Doña Duke University early economic Ediciones Huracán elite female feminism feminists García Gender History husband ibid insisted intellectual island José José Celso Barbosa Juicios verbales La Democracia labor movement Liberals lived Luisa Capetillo male María Mariano Abril marital marriage married men's moral mujer nineteenth nineteenth-century percent plebeian women police political Ponce Ponce's popular classes prostitution Puerto Rico Puertorriqueña Quintero Rivera race radical Ramón Ramón Romero rapto reform relationships repression Republicano respectable Rico's Río Piedras Rodríguez Roqué Salvador Brau San Juan Sept sexual norms siglo slavery social society struggle surveillance tion Tormes U.S. colonial U.S. rule Unión Obrera University Press urban wealthy woman workers workingwomen
Referencias a este libro
Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public ... Johanna Schoen Vista previa restringida - 2006 |
Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States Nicholas De Genova Vista previa restringida - 2006 |