Setting them straight: Social services, youth, sexuality, and modernization in postwar (WWII) Puerto Rico

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1. Verfasser: Isabel Córdova Suárez
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Veröffentlicht: The City University of New York 2007
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contents Setting them straight: Social services, youth, sexuality, and modernization in postwar (WWII) Puerto Rico Isabel Córdova Suárez Sociología youth deviance sexuality patriarchy social work This project examines the concerns expressed bythose involved in social services with regard to familyand juvenile interventions within the broader frameworkof modernization from the 1950s to the ´60s inPuerto Rico. The desire to produce a new, democraticsociety and the fear that decomposing, traditionallygendered family roles and hierarchies would lead tosocial crisis became a persistent theme in mid-centurysocial work on the island. Along the same lines, thereseemed to be a sort of amplified heterosexist hysteria,where any deviance from the accepted norms were notonly classified as pathological but often as homosexual,therefore equating homosexuality with any sort of sexual“deviance.” 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719102 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XIX
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spellingShingle Setting them straight: Social services, youth, sexuality, and modernization in postwar (WWII) Puerto Rico
Isabel Córdova Suárez
Sociología
youth
deviance
sexuality
patriarchy
social work
Setting them straight: Social services, youth, sexuality, and modernization in postwar (WWII) Puerto Rico Isabel Córdova Suárez Sociología youth deviance sexuality patriarchy social work This project examines the concerns expressed bythose involved in social services with regard to familyand juvenile interventions within the broader frameworkof modernization from the 1950s to the ´60s inPuerto Rico. The desire to produce a new, democraticsociety and the fear that decomposing, traditionallygendered family roles and hierarchies would lead tosocial crisis became a persistent theme in mid-centurysocial work on the island. Along the same lines, thereseemed to be a sort of amplified heterosexist hysteria,where any deviance from the accepted norms were notonly classified as pathological but often as homosexual,therefore equating homosexuality with any sort of sexual“deviance.” 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719102 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XIX
title Setting them straight: Social services, youth, sexuality, and modernization in postwar (WWII) Puerto Rico
topic Sociología
youth
deviance
sexuality
patriarchy
social work
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719102