This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands due to differential economic, social, and political development. In the periphery of Puntarenas, the development of prostitution reflected a less stigmatized view of sexual commerce than that of the highlands, where prostitution, although legal, threatened the tenets...
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exp...
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands due to differential economic, social, and political development. In the periphery of Puntarenas, the development of prostitution reflected a less stigmatized view of sexual commerce than that of the highlands, where prostitution, although legal, threatened the tenets...
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exp...
In the last several decades, the feminist movement has shifted far away from core issues that served the interests of all women, such as equal opportunity and the eradication of discrimination. Today's movement, though it still nominally addresses these issues, now preoccupies itself with an ideology that embraces ideas with which many women do not sympathize, like abolishing marriage and the traditional family and emasculating men. "Sexless" takes a close look at this shift in priorities, and shows how feminism is now working against the material interests of millions of women, including the...
In the last several decades, the feminist movement has shifted far away from core issues that served the interests of all women, such as equal opportu...
