Non sanctas women. Prostitution and sex offences: Criminal practices in the city of Mexico, 1940-1950 [Mujeres, non sanctas. Prostitución y delitos sexuales: practices criminales en la ciudad de méxico, 1940-1950]
Por:
Esqueda M.S.
Publicada:
1 ene 2013
Resumen:
The nineteen-forties marked a new age in regulatory development seeking to control and modify sexual habits considered to be degrading which prevented the consolidation of a family-based sexual morality. in this scenario, it was assumed that the eradication of prostitution and sexual offences would be possible by regulating and penalising different aspects of common conduct at the "centres of vice", places which paradoxically boomed considerably. The study enables us to learn about the role of women as victims and offenders in sex offences, and stresses the importance of their active participation in the reorganisation that the capital's sex trade started to undergo.
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