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Article Review: Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico Reproducing Empire
You will write a 3- to 4-page book review over one of the following books related to the field of Feminist Science and Technology Studies.
The book review is over Race, Sex, Science, And U.S. Imperialism In Puerto Rico by Laura
Briggs.
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Article Review: Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico Reproducing Empire
Puerto Rico got into the United States empire way long in 1898 and have maintained their presence till today; they have an unclear citizenship lacking suffrage. Puerto Rico presents both opportunities and problems to the united states at the same time. There is a problem in the portrayal of Puerto Rico’s social and economic 'backwardness .'The opportunity that is presented herein is the fact that they have opposite terms in the advantages of economic and ideological ties to the U.S. All these two sides are evident in the sexuality, the family arrangements, and the reproductive patterns of Puerto Rico people and more specifically the working-class women. “Missionary women, however, sided with colonial officials in the effort to produce respectable families. While the WCTU chapter in Puerto Rico was initially uninterested in the “purity” cause, members nevertheless located themselves symbolically and metaphorically in a story about families” (Briggs, 57). Laura Briggs, in his book, "Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, brings in the issues of sexuality and family arrangements. Laura Briggs integrates many critical frameworks to look into the dynamics of the colonialism of the united states in Puerto Rico through issues related to sex.
The book "Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, is compelling and compelling. The book is covering extensively on public policy, overpopulation, culture of poverty, Puerto Rican nationalism, and feminism. “As feminists have noted, prostitution is also an important site of cultural negotiation overpower and the social organization of gender in the domestic, sexual, and reproductive spheres. Prostitution illuminates “a society’s organization of class and gender: the power arrangements between men and women’s economic and social status; the prevailing sexual ideology; . . .” (Briggs, 26). This book brings to light the growing concerns about prostitution, family, and motherhood in shaping practice and beliefs in the mid20th century, in the times of Puerto Rican colonialism. At the inception of the book, Laura Briggs opens the book by presenting a discussion on the roots of the united states' globalization and western colonialism. Laura Briggs presents herself in her epilogue, "I am a U.S. Anglo whose ties to the island only love and a relentless sense that that just as the history of the island is inescapably tied to the mainland, so the mainland's history is reciprocally tied to the island" (Bring, 11). There are constructs that are in place as a scapegoat for Subordination of Puerto Rico by the united...
