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9780742537422

Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742537422

  • ISBN10:

    0742537420

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-11-06
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This innovative volume of original primary research integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality--rather than simply supplementing existing explanat

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence 1(30)
William E. French
Katherine Elaine Bliss
Vicenta Ochoa, Dead Many Times: Gender, Politics, and a Death Sentence in Early Republican Caracas, Venezuela
31(21)
Arlene J. Diaz
Madame Durocher's Performance: Cross-Dressing, Midwifery, and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
52(19)
Erica M. Windler
Mismeasured Women: Gender and Social Science on the Eve of Female Suffrage in Cuba
71(16)
Alejandra Bronfman
``Such a Strong Need'': Sexuality and Violence in Belem Prison
87(22)
Pablo Piccato
``Gentlemanly Responsibility'' and ``Insults of a Woman'': Dueling and the Unwritten Rules of Public Life in Uruguay, 1860--1920
109(24)
David S. Parker
Work, Sex, and Power in a Central American Export Economy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
133(30)
Lara E. Putnam
Dangerous Driving: Adolescence, Sex, and the Gendered Experience of Public Space in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico City
163(24)
Katherine Elaine Bliss
Ann S. Blum
Doctoring the National Body: Gender, Race, Eugenics, and the ``Invert'' in Urban Brazil, ca. 1920--1945
187(25)
James N. Green
Masculinity, Primitivism, and Power: Gaucho, Tango, and the Shaping of Argentine National Identity
212(18)
Eduardo P. Archetti
Gender, Sexuality, and Revolution: Making Histories and Cultural Politics in Nicaragua, 1979--2001
230(31)
Cymene Howe
Gendering the Space of Death: Memory, Democratization, and the Domestic
261(22)
Lessie Jo Frazier
Appendix: Mexican Internet Sites for Gender and Sexuality 283(8)
Wendy A. Vogt
Bibliography 291(10)
Index 301(6)
About the Contributors 307

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