Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920s

Authors

  • Cristiana Schettini CONICET / Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género - Universidad de Buenos Aires / Universidad Nacional de General San Martin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.17.2017.64.81-103

Keywords:

Prostitution, Traffic of women, South America, League of Nations

Abstract

This article examines the cultural encounters among League of Nations’ special agents and official authorities of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the first international investigation on traffic of women. Marked by cultural distances, such encounters resulted in the emergence of an idea of “South America” as a specific region in a broader moral geography. Although they sought to create the conditions for international collaborative initiatives, the League of Nations’ agents did not recognize the local meanings of anti-traffic legislation and its utility for the same police forces they reputed inefficient.

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Published

2017-03-15

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 64 (2017)

Section

Dossier

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