West of sex : making Mexican America, 1900-1930 / Pablo Mitchell.

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Pablo.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Format/Description:

Book
xi, 151 pages ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Mexicans -- Sexual behavior -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Sex crimes) -- Southwest, New -- Cases.
Sex crimes -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.
Sex -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mexicans -- Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.
Southwest, New -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Marginality, Social -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.

Contents:

Colonial convictions
Home fires and domesticity
Uncommon women and prostitution
Sexual borderlands
Courtship and the courts
Conclusion: from the outskirts of citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226532684 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226532682 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226532691 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226532690 (paperback : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

743214677

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