num_pages: 328
description: Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, attempts at reforming marriage, and working-class ideas about free love, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico’s shift from Spanish to U.S. colonialism.
language: English
title: Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920
titlecomplete: Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920
genres: History, Sexuality, Race, Academic, Nonfiction, Feminism
ratings_count: 95
publisher: Duke University Press Books