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Briggs, Laura. "Reproducing Empire: Race and Sex, Science and Reform in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States, 1880-1960," Department of American Civilization, Brown University, September 1997.
Drawing on sources in Spanish and English, from Puerto Rico and the mainland United States, this dissertation explores a series of controversies over women’s sexuality. Looking at struggles over hysteria, prostitution and venereal disease policy, eugenics, birth control, and sterilization, it shows how questions of sex and reproduction have been an important arena in which meanings of race and issues of colonialism have been negotiated. This dissertation explores these multi-sided contestations from the perspectives of island and mainland, Puerto Rico and North Americans; scientists and physicians; reformers, social workers, and feminists; and politicians, colonial officials, and academic elaborators of development policy.
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