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Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico

By Nicole von Germeten

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780520969704
DOI
10.1515/9780520969704
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1333384 bytes)
Pages
264\246
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 14:32:01

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.

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