Profit and Passion

Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29729-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

von Germeten, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Bawds and Brothels 15
2. From Whores to Prostitutes 36
3. Respectable Mistresses 50
4. Courtesans and Th eir Lovers 69
5. Streetwalkers and the Police 88
6. Multiple Prostitute Identities 109
7. Selling Sex, Saving the Family 130
Conclusion 153
Notes 161
Bibliography 209

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole von Germeten is Professor of History at Oregon State University.