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'The history of Latin American women has received increased attention from scholars in the last twenty years. The history of gender relations in the region has barely begun, however, and one could say the same of the historical study of prostitution and sexuality. Donna Guy's book is an important and imaginative contribution to the literature on all these topics' - "The Americas". 'A significant contribution to the study of how marginal women (and men) have helped define social, economic, and political acceptability...The author's goal - to show the 'relationship of female sexual commerce to family, class, and nation' - is realized in a very readable analysis of mid-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century Argentina from the perspective of the underworld of prostitutes, bordellos, and international white slavery rings' - "Hispanic American Historical Review". 'Guy's well-organized study of a vast array of social, political, and cultural currents will be of interest to scholars of comparative women's studies and to historians who are engaged in the complicated task of integrating the study of gender relations into economic, political, and social history' - "American Historical Review". Guy's study is a salutary reminder of how deeply prostitution influences the politics of nationalism, of social control and of cultural identity, not just in Argentina but in Europe as well' - "Manchester Guardian'. Donna J. Guy, a professor of history at the University of Arizona, is the author of "Argentine Sugar Politics: Tucuman and the Generation of Eighty".
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'The history of Latin American women has received increased attention from scholars in the last twenty years. The history of gender relations in the region has barely begun, however, and one could say the same of the historical study of prostitution and sexuality. Donna Guy's book is an important and imaginative contribution to the literature on all these topics' - "The Americas". 'A significant contribution to the study of how marginal women (and men) have helped define social, economic, and political acceptability...The author's goal - to show the 'relationship of female sexual commerce to family, class, and nation' - is realized in a very readable analysis of mid-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century Argentina from the perspective of the underworld of prostitutes, bordellos, and international white slavery rings' - "Hispanic American Historical Review". 'Guy's well-organized study of a vast array of social, political, and cultural currents will be of interest to scholars of comparative women's studies and to historians who are engaged in the complicated task of integrating the study of gender relations into economic, political, and social history' - "American Historical Review". Guy's study is a salutary reminder of how deeply prostitution influences the politics of nationalism, of social control and of cultural identity, not just in Argentina but in Europe as well' - "Manchester Guardian'. Donna J. Guy, a professor of history at the University of Arizona, is the author of "Argentine Sugar Politics: Tucuman and the Generation of Eighty".
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Describes the prostitution industry form Poland to Argentina from the 1880s to the 1930s. The text follows the life and career of Raquel Liberman, a Polish Jewish prostitute and victim of the white slave trade. Her struggle with the Zwi Migdal, which controlled the recruitment and deployment of Jewish prostitutes, was widely publicised in newspapers and magazines. This book offers an intimate view of how the affair caught the public imagination, and was interpreted and transformed by the artistic imagination.
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In the second half of the 19th century several thousand impoverished young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution in the frontier colonies of Latin America, South Africa, India and parts of the United States. These unwitting Jewish women were procured for the thousands of new European immigrants who came to establish these colonies. The import of these women left a legacy in each of these countries: the rise of anti-Semitism. Bodies and Souls brings to light a dark, untold chapter in Jewish history - a topic previously hidden because of the extreme shame surrounding it. From the end of the 1860s until the beginning of WWII, thousands of young, impoverished Jewish women were sold into slavery by a notorious criminal gang of Jewish mobsters, the Zwi Migdal. By the turn of the 19th century the Zwi Migdal had established their headquarters in Buenos Aires. However, it was in Rio de Janeiro that The Society of Truth was created. The most shameful part of all of this was how the women were treated by the Jewish community. A group of these women banded together to form The Society of Truth. They stood up against the dogma that said they were impure. Herein lies the irony: this group, cast aside by their community, went on to form a new society for themselves, a society of love, honour to God and faith in each other. .
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• Introduction: White slave wives on the road to Buenos Aires
• White slaves and dark masters
• Jewish traffic in women
• Marriage as ruse, or migration strategy
• Immigrant mutual aid among pimps
• The impure shape Jewish Buenos Aires
• Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society.

Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality.
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