Absi Pascale. (2017). The future of an institution from the past : accommodating regulationism in Bolivia, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In :
Rodríguez García M. (ed.), Van Voss L.H. (ed.), Van Nederveen Meerkerk E. (ed.). Selling sex in the city : a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s. [s.l.] : Brill, 466-489. (Studies in Global Social History ; 31). ISBN 978-90-04-34625-3.
Titre du document
The future of an institution from the past : accommodating regulationism in Bolivia, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century
Année de publication
2017
Type de document
Partie d'ouvrage
Auteurs
Absi Pascale
In
Rodríguez García M. (ed.), Van Voss L.H. (ed.), Van Nederveen Meerkerk E. (ed.) Selling sex in the city : a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s
Source
[s.l.] : Brill, 2017,
466-489 (Studies in Global Social History ; 31). ISBN 978-90-04-34625-3
This article uses the present tense to discuss an institution from the past: the regulationist approach to prostitution developed in France in the nineteenth century. While this system has gradually disappeared in Europe, its survival in present-day Bolivia means that the similarities and ruptures between current and past methods used in the public and social management of prostitution can be analysed. Most of the research was carried out in Potosí, a mining city founded by the Spanish conquistadores in the heart of the Bolivian Andes. With a population of 170,000 (2012 census), Potosí is a large city in Bolivian terms,...
Plan de classement
Comportements et pratiques sociales [106GESOC2]
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Histoire [112HISTO]
Descripteurs
ANTHROPOLOGIE SOCIALE ; PROSTITUTION ; CONTROLE SOCIAL ; HISTOIRE ; FEMME ; MIGRATION ; VILLE ; ETHNOGRAPHIE
