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Author Drinot, Paulo, author.

Title The sexual question : a history of prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s / Paulo Drinot, University College London
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Cambridge Latin American studies ; 119
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 119.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Sexual Question -- Historiographical Dialogues -- Archival Indiscipline and Elusive Sources -- Chapters -- 1 Regulating Prostitution -- ''How many victims and how many losses for society!'' -- Cobián's Proposal -- Regulation or Freedom -- Conclusion -- 2 Protecting Men -- The Politics of Prostitution -- ''Forced to buy love with money'' -- ''People of standing have never lived there'' -- The New Temples of Venus
Conclusion -- 3 Policing Women -- Clandestine Prostitution -- Respectability and Immorality -- White Slavery and the Boyish Woman -- White Slavery -- The Boyish Woman -- La Victoria -- Conclusion -- 4 Medicalizing Sin -- Venereal Disease -- The Asistencia Pública -- From Policing to Treatment -- Conclusion -- 5 Combating Venereal Disease -- The Military and Venereal Disease -- Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence -- Social Workers -- Venereal Disease and the Indian Problem -- The Criminology and Sociology of Prostitution -- Conclusion -- 6 Abolishing Vice -- The Barrio Rojo -- Peruvian Abolitionism
Abolition or Tolerance -- From the Barrio Rojo to the ''Pink City'' -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archives -- Periodicals -- Printed Primary Sources -- Books and Articles -- Index
Summary "For just under thirty years, between its creation in 1928 and its closure in 1956, the barrio rojo, or red-light district around Huatica Street, originally known as 20 September Street, in La Victoria district, was the centre of brothel prostitution in the Peruvian capital, a place where many thousands of men, like Mario Vargas Llosa's character Alberto, and indeed, Vargas Llosa himself, went in search of Golden Toes and others like her.1 The creation of Lima's barrio rojo in 1928 was the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation, the attempt to control the spread of venereal disease through the medical policing of female prostitutes. As they did in most of Latin America (and parts of Europe, Africa and Asia) at this time, elites in Peru too argued that the regulation of prostitution was not only imperative from a moral and public health perspective; it was also the "modern" way to deal with prostitution and venereal disease, and particularly with syphilis, a disease that affected the health of the individual and, because of its presumed hereditary effects, the vitality of the nation as a whole. By the 1950s, however, few held such views. Lima's red-light district was now seen as a source of moral and epidemiological danger. This book examines what the both the creation and closure of Lima's barrio rojo tells us about Peruvian society in the first half of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 08, 2020)
Subject Prostitution -- Peru -- Lima -- History
Red-light districts -- Peru -- Lima -- History
Prostitution
Red-light districts
Social conditions
SUBJECT Lima (Peru) -- Social conditions
Subject Peru -- Lima
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019038688
ISBN 9781108675659
1108675654