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Lugares de mal vivir Una historia cultural de los prostíbulos de Buenos Aires (1875-1936)

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Caride Bartrons, Horacio
Contributor:
Dal Castello, David, Editor.
Zanzottera, Guillermina, Editor.
Dal Castello, David
Zanzottera, Guillermina
Series:
Tesis del IAA 1
Language:
Spanish
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Buenos Aires Ediciones Digitales del Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas "Mario J. Buschiazzo" 2017
Language Note:
Spanish
Summary:
The object of study of this book is the Buenos Aires brothel which, during the period of tolerance that runs from 1875 to 1936, was dispersed, changed, and reconfigured several times. The purpose is to explain how and why that brothel, as one of the most emblematic spaces of the marginal universe of the city, paradoxically occupied a central place in the culture of those years. Urban growth, the development and widening of streets and squares, have practically erased all traces of the buildings and spaces that, in general, made up the brothel environment of Buenos Aires before reaching the first half of the 20th century. What remain are the stories, the chronicles. We have some sources that recover many voices, but almost never that of the prostituted woman. It is those stories that speak of the misery of a city and its society, of its power and of its night, that this book seeks to explore. It is something of that fragmented and diffuse universe that these pages attempt to reconstruct.
El objeto de estudio de este libro es el prostíbulo porteño que, durante el período de la tolerancia que va de 1875 a 1936, se dispersó, mutó y reconfiguró varias veces. El propósito es explicar cómo y por qué ese prostíbulo, en cuanto uno de los espacios más emblemáticos del universo marginal de la ciudad, ocupó, paradójicamente, un lugar central en la cultura de aquellos años. El crecimiento urbano, el desarrollo y el ensanche de calles y plazas han borrado prácticamente toda huella de los edificios y de los espacios que, en general, conformaron el ambiente prostibulario de Buenos Aires antes de alcanzar la primera mitad del siglo XX. Subsisten los relatos, las crónicas. Contamos con algunas fuentes que recuperan muchas voces, pero casi nunca la de la mujer prostituida. Son esas historias que hablan de la miseria de una ciudad y de su sociedad, de su poder y de su noche las que se pretende indagar. Es algo de aquel universo fragmentado y difuso lo que se busca reconstruir en estas páginas.

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