Women, Sex, and Inequality in Latin America
Week 7 Post
Although the Mexican state had previously established laws regarding the regulation of legal prositution in largely urban settings, the Mexican Revolution produced widespread violence and displacement which encouraged migration to urban centers exacerbating the number of women whom utilized sex work as a means of establishing economic security for themselves and their dependents. Often times…
Weel 5 Post
The newly independent states formed out of Bolivar’s wars of independence in the early 19th century were established by liberal intellectuals influenced by ideas emerging from the enlightenment which drew from western models like the French revolution in order to facilitate their introduction into the “modern” world and break away from the Spanish colonial past.…
History 472 - Women, Sex, and Inequality in Latin America 