Moralizing Public Space: Prostitution, Disease, and Social Disorder in Orizaba, Mexico, 1910–1945.

This article explores how women working as prostitutes in Orizaba, Mexico, laid claim to a more revolutionary vision of women’s citizenship. Prostitutes pushed the state to realize the promises of the Mexican Revolution, even as officials and many local residents—rich and poor—retained outmoded noti...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Social History Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 54 - 74
Autor principal:	Swedberg, Gregory
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Fall2018
Materias:	Orizaba (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) Sex workers Public spaces Ethics Communicable diseases History of sex work Mexican Revolution, Mexico, 1910-1920 Social conditions in Mexico 20th century Mexican history
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Sumario:	This article explores how women working as prostitutes in Orizaba, Mexico, laid claim to a more revolutionary vision of women’s citizenship. Prostitutes pushed the state to realize the promises of the Mexican Revolution, even as officials and many local residents—rich and poor—retained outmoded notions of gender and citizenship. This research indicates that “respectable” poor and working-class individuals gravitated toward traditional gender values so as to position themselves as respectable in the eyes of state agents charged with policing morality and public health. State officials’ rhetoric of egalitarianism that followed the Mexican Revolution fell flat for the public women whose pecuniary position persisted long after the guns fell silent.