Alajuela Costa Rica Province

The Rough Guide to Costa Rica

• Author(s): Jean McNeil

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2001
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• Publisher: Rough Guides

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Bulletin

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1961
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported

• Categories: Germplasm resources, Plant

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1957
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Author(s): Library of Congress

• Categories: Subject headings, Library of Congress

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Female Prostitution in Costa Rica

• Author(s): Anne Hayes

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013-09-13
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• Publisher: Routledge

This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands due to differential economic, social, and political development. In the periphery of Puntarenas, the development of prostitution reflected a less stigmatized view of sexual commerce than that of the highlands, where prostitution, although legal, threatened the tenets of liberal nationalism based on racial homogeneity and family values. Women of the highlands were encour...