| Description |
xi, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
American crossroads ; 11
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American crossroads ; 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Colonialism : familiar territory -- 1. Sexuality, medicine, and imperialism : the international traffic in prostitution policy -- 2. Sex and citizenship : the politics of prostitution in Puerto Rico, 1898-1918 -- 3. Debating reproductions : birth control, eugenics, and overpopulation in Puerto Rico, 1920-1940 -- 4. Demon mothers in the social laboratory : development, overpopulation, and "the pill," 1940-1960 -- 5. The politics of sterilization, 1937-1974 -- 6. "I like to be in America" : postwar Puerto Rican migration, the culture of poverty, and the Moynihan report -- Epilogue: Ghosts, cyborgs, and why Puerto Rico is the most important place in the world. |
| Summary |
"Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it reveals the legacies haunting contemporary debates over globalization."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Subject |
Birth control -- Puerto Rico -- History.
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Birth control. |
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Puerto Rico. |
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History. |
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Sterilization (Birth control) -- Puerto Rico -- History.
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Sterilization (Birth control) |
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Puerto Rico -- Population.
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Population. |
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Prostitution -- Puerto Rico -- History.
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Prostitution. |
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Prostitution -- History.
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Women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Puerto Ricans -- United States.
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Puerto Ricans. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Relations -- Puerto Rico.
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Relations. |
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Puerto Rico -- Relations -- United States.
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International relations. |
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Women -- Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Sexual sterilization. |
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Female prostitution. |
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Prostitution. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Title |
Race, sex, science, and U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico |
| ISBN |
0520232585 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520222555 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520222557 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520232587 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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