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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Pablo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexicans--Sexual behavior--Southwest, New--History--20th century.

Mexicans.

Trials (Sex crimes)--Southwest, New--Cases.

Trials (Sex crimes).

Sex crimes--Southwest, New--History--20th century.

Sex crimes.

Sex--Social aspects--United States.

Sex.

Mexicans--Southwest, New--Social conditions--History--20th century.

Marginality, Social.

History.

Race relations.

Social conditions.

Sex--Social aspects.

Mexicans--Sexual behavior.

Southwest, New--Race relations--History--20th century.

Southwest, New.

Marginality, Social--Southwest, New--History--20th century.

New Southwest.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 151 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Summary:

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In West of Sex, Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide the first coherent picture of Mexican American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century, and a truly revelatory look at sexual identity in the borderlands. Written in rich and engaging prose, West of Sex offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of ethnicity and power in the United States, placing ordinary Mexican women and men at the center of the story of American sex, colonialism, and belonging. Book jacket.

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

0226532682

9780226532691

0226532690

OCLC:

743214677