by Fernanda Nunez Becerra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474329452
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«La prostitución y su represión en la Ciudad de México (siglo XIX)» is the historical study by Fernanda Núñez Becerra (Gedisa, paperback, 224 pages).
In nineteenth-century Mexico City, the «French system» of regulated tolerance is implemented to control prostitutes. The author analyzes how syphilis, erected as a «modern plague», drives a discourse of doctors, police, lawyers, and writers who see the city as a New Babylon and use the prostitute to impose a sexual and family morality that relegated women to the home.
Part of the Biblioteca Iberoamericana de Pensamiento collection (BIP México). Text in Spanish.
Will interest readers of Mexican social and cultural history and those studying gender and sexuality in the nineteenth century.
