A right to live as gente decente: Sex work, family life, and collective identity in early-twentieth-century Mexico

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Bliss, Katherine Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 43249183926     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2004.0005     Document Type: Article

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8. Katherine Elaine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001 ), 63-93.
9. See, for example, Donna J. Guy Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family and Nation in Argentina. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1991);
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12. and Timothy J. Gilfoyle, "Prostitutes in History: From Parables of Pornography to Metaphors of Modernity," American Historical Review 104, no. 1 (1999), 117-41.
13. See Bliss, Compromised Positions, 23-61.
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17. See Katherine Elaine Bliss, "Guided by an Imperious, Moral Need: Prostitutes, Mothers and Nationalists in Revolutionary Mexico City," in Reconstructing Criminality, ed. Robert Buffington and Carlos Aguirre(Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc, 2000).
18. "No mas mujeres en los cabarets," El Universal, 8 October 1937.
19. "Las prostitutas no creen conveniente el sindicalizarse," La Prensa, 30 October 1937, 11.
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22. "Solamente se pide justicia al Sr. Dr. Leonides Andreu Almazan por la clausura de la zona de tolerancia," El Universal, 19 May 1939.