Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 278 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520232585
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0520222555
Series Statement:
American crossroads 11
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index
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Acknowledgments; 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 Reproduction: 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
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EPILOGUE: Ghosts, Cyborgs, and Why Puerto Rico Is the Most Important Place in the WorldNotes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520232587
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reproducing Empire : Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
Language:
English
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