Posts com a Tag ‘História da Prostituição’

A few years ago, while reviewing archival material on Valparaíso, Chile, I ran across reports of women engaging in sex work in temporary housing after the 1906 earthquake. The authorities quickly made it clear that sex work itself was not the main issue; much more important was where it was happening. I thought there was a much larger story to be told, but since I was researching a rather different topic, I took a picture and made a note of it. Paulo Drinot, in his new book The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s, takes on the subject of sex work in Peru and does so by drawing on an enormously wide range of sources, care for geography, and an attention to historical change from various angles. Leia Mais