LEADER 04668nam 22007574a 450 001 9910822183203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93631-0 010 $a1-59734-861-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936317 035 $a(CKB)111087027176502 035 $a(EBL)223645 035 $a(OCoLC)475928663 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084764 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125785 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084764 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10008188 035 $a(PQKB)10108796 035 $a(DE-B1597)519348 035 $a(OCoLC)1058357213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936317 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223645 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048757 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223645 035 $a(dli)HEB04341 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005548899 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027176502 100 $a20020206d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReproducing empire $erace, sex, science, and U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico /$fLaura Briggs 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican crossroads ;$v11 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23258-5 311 $a0-520-22255-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Colonialism: Familiar Territory --$t1. Sexuality, Medicine, and Imperialism: The International Traffic in Prostitution Policy --$t2. Sex and Citizenship: The Politics of Prostitution in Puerto Rico, 1898-1918 --$t3. Debating Reproduction: Birth Control, Eugenics, and Overpopulation in Puerto Rico, 1920-1940 --$t4. Demon Mothers in the Social Laboratory: Development, Overpopulation, and "the Pill," 1940-1960 --$t5. The Politics of Sterilization, 1937-1974 --$t6. "I like to be in America": Postwar Puerto Rican Migration, the Culture of Poverty, and the Moynihan Report --$tEpilogue. Ghosts, Cyborgs, and Why Puerto Rico Is the Most Important Place in the World --$tNotes --$tBibliography 330 $aOriginal and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it sheds light on the legacies haunting contemporary debates over globalization.Puerto Rico is a perfect lens through which to examine colonialism and globalization because for the past century it has been where the United States has expressed and fine-tuned its attitudes toward its own expansionism. Puerto Rico's history holds no simple lessons for present-day debate over globalization but does unearth some of its history. Reproducing Empire suggests that interventionist discourses of rescue, family, and sexuality fueled U.S. imperial projects and organized American colonialism. Through the politics, biology, and medicine of eugenics, prostitution, and birth control, the United States has justified its presence in the territory's politics and society. Briggs makes an innovative contribution to Puerto Rican and U.S. history, effectively arguing that gender has been crucial to the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, and more broadly, to U.S. expansion elsewhere. 410 0$aAmerican crossroads ;$v11. 606 $aBirth control$zPuerto Rico$xHistory 606 $aSterilization (Birth control)$zPuerto Rico$xHistory 606 $aProstitution$zPuerto Rico$xHistory 606 $aProstitution$xHistory 606 $aPuerto Ricans$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zPuerto Rico 607 $aPuerto Rico$xRelations$zUnited States 615 0$aBirth control$xHistory. 615 0$aSterilization (Birth control)$xHistory. 615 0$aProstitution$xHistory. 615 0$aProstitution$xHistory. 615 0$aPuerto Ricans 676 $a363.9/6/097295 700 $aBriggs$b Laura$f1964-$01004131 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822183203321 996 $aReproducing empire$92306231 997 $aUNINA