“White Slavery,” Citizenship and Nationality in Argentina

Nationalisms and Sexualities

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 201-217

  Guy, Donna J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429440359-22     Document Type: Chapter

References (27)

1. Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval-Davis, “Introduction,” in Yuval-Davis and Anthias, eds., Women, Nation, State (London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1989), p. 7.
2. Christine Obbo, “Sexuality and Economic Domination in Uganda,” in Ibid., p. 85.
3. A comparative analysis of citizenship laws in Europe and Latin America, particularly in regard to female citizenship, can be found in Encyclopedia Jurídica Omeba (Buenos Aires: Bibliográfica Omeba, 1964), xx, pp. 36-37.
4. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983), pp. 15, 52.
5. The history of municipal and national legislation regarding legalized prostitution in Argentina can be found in Donna J. Guy, “White Slavery, Public Health, and the Socialist Position on Legalized Prostitution in Argentina, 1913-1936,” Latin American Research Review, 23, 3 (1988), pp. 60-80. See also Donna J. Guy, “Public Health, Gender, and Private Morality: Paid Labor and the Formation of the Body Politic in Buenos Aires,” Gender and History, 2, 3 (1990), pp. 297-317.
6. Dr. Benjamin Dupont, Pomografía de Buenos Aires. De la necesidad imprescindible de un dispensario de salubridad y de una oficina de costumbres para reglamentar y reprimir la prostitución (Buenos Aires: Imprenta de Pablo E. Coni, 1879), pp. 12-13. It was fortunate for Dupont that the French anti-white slavery movement was relatively weak. See Steven C. Hause and Anne R. Kenney, Women's Suffrage and Social Politics in the French Third Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), p. 257.
7. Edward J. Bristow, Vice and Vigilance; Purity Movements in Britain since 1700 (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan; Rowman and Littlefield, 1977), p. 78.
8. National Vigilance Association, Fifth Annual Report (London, 1890), p. 35.
9. League of Nations, Report of the Special Body of Experts on Traffic in Women and Children, Two Parts (Geneva, 1927), Part II, Annex IV, pp. 197-98.
10. The story of the Jewish social worker in Buenos Aires can be found in the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women’s report to the National Vigilance Association, December 3, 1934 (NVA Archives, Box 111, File No. 3, Fawcett Library, London Polytechnic University), while the British social worker’s story was published in the Vigilance Record, 11 (November 1914), p. 82 and 12 (December 1914), p. 86. The organization of the Asociació n Nadonal Argentina contra la Trata de Blancas can be found in its first report: Memoria de la “Asociacion Nacional contra la Trata de Blancas” correspondiente al ejercicio 1902 a 1903 (Buenos Aires: Tipografía Pablo Gadola, 1904), pp. 3-4. The flyer was found in Great Britain, Public Record Office, FO 371/4477. A more general analysis of these groups can be found in Donna J. Guy, Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming), chapters 1 and 2.
11. Argentine physicians tended to view women’s desire for money as a more important justification for regulated prostitution than an unhealthy desire for men. For an early but cogent opinion see Dr. Carlos Gallarani, “Reglamentación de la prostitutión Fundamentos de esta importante medida de higiene pública. Proyecto adaptable a la iudad del Rosario (República Argentina),” Revista mèdico-quirúrgica, 6 (1869-70), p. 271.
12. Fédération Abolitionniste Internationale, Dixième Congrès tenu a Genevre, le 7-11 Septembre 1908 (Geneva: Secretariat Generate de la Fédération, 1909), pp. 264- 65.
13. Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, Report of the Secretary on his Visit to South America, 1919 (Oxford: Privately Printed, 1913), pp. 1-2, 14- 15.
14. Vigilance Record, May 1921, p. 38.
15. Speech of Dr. Paulina Luisi, Report of the Sixth International Congress for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children held in Graz (Austria) (Graz, 1924), pp. 108-11.
16. Report of the Seventh International Congress for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children (London, 1927), pp. 36-37.
17. “Extent of the Enquiry,” League of Nations, Report of the Special Body of Experts on Traffic in Women and Children, 2 Parts (1927), I: 6.
18. Ibid., Annex I. List of Countries and Towns in Which Enquiry was Conducted and Time Spent by Investigators in Observing Traffic Conditions, II: 195; I: 11. The Argentine report can be found in II: 11-18.
19. Statement from the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, League of Nations, Nationality and Status of Women; Statements Presented by Women's Organizations (Geneva, 1935), p. 2.
20. Ibid., p. 3; Part I, Article 14, Argentine Constitution of 1853, including reforms of September 23, 1860. Arturo Enrique Sampay, compiler, Las constituciones de la Argentina (1810-1972) (Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, 1975); Law No. 346, Ley de Ciudadanía, October 1, 1866, found in Argentine Republic, Camara de Diputados, Diario de Sesiones, 1869, pp. 478-79.
21. League of Nations, Nationality and Status of Women; Statements Presented by International Women's Organizations, p. 4.
22. Francesca Miller has examined the role of Pan American Scientific Conferences in organizing Latin American feminists for the 1928 International Conference of American States; see her “The International Relations of Women of the Americas 1890-1928, ” The Americas, 43, 2 (October 1986), pp. 171-81.
23. Seventh International Conference of American States, Final Act Including the Conventions and Additional Protocol Adopted by the Conference (Uruguay: J. Florensa, Impresor, 1933).
24. Report of the Inter-American Commission of Women to the Eighth International Conference of American States on the Political and Civil Rights of Women (Lima, 1938), pp. 85-87.
25. League of Nations, Nationality and Status of Women; Statements Presented by International Women's Organizations, p. 2.
26. League of Nations, Advisory Committee on Social Questions; Enquiry into Measures of Rehabilitation of Prostitutes, 2 Vols. (Geneva, 1939), II: 112.
27. “National Ratification of Selected International Conventions on the Rights of Women,” in Ruth Leger Sivard, Women—A World Survey (Washington, DC: WorldPriorities, 1985), pp. 30-31.