| Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico Contributor(s): Von Germeten, Nicole (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520297296 ISBN-13: 9780520297296 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Central America - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) |
| Dewey: 306.740 |
| LCCN: 2017045678 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology for prosecuted women voiced by kings, jurists, magistrates, inquisitors, and bishops, as well as disgruntled husbands and neighbors, foreshadows the increasing regulation, criminalization, and polarizing politics of modern global transactional sex. The author's analysis concentrates on the words women spoke in depositions and court appearances and on how their language changed over time, pointing to a broader transformation in the history of sexuality, gender, and the ways in which courts and law enforcement processes affected women. |