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 explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these processes. Focusing on subjects as varied as murder, motherhood and the death penalty in early Republican Venezuela, dueling in Uruguay, midwifery in Brazil, youth culture in Mexico, and revolution in Nicaragua, contributors explore the many ways that…mehr
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 explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these processes. Focusing on subjects as varied as murder, motherhood and the death penalty in early Republican Venezuela, dueling in Uruguay, midwifery in Brazil, youth culture in Mexico, and revolution in Nicaragua, contributors explore the many ways that gender and sexuality have been essential to the operation of power in Latin America over the last two hundred years.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edited by William E. French and Katherine Elaine Bliss - Contributions by Eduardo P. Archetti; Ann S. Blum; Alejandra Bronfman; Arlene J. Díaz; Lessie Jo Frazier; William E. French; James N. Green; Cymene Howe; David S. Parker; Pablo Piccato; Lara E. Putn
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender Sexuality and Power in Latin America since Independence Chapter 2 Vicenta Ochoa Dead Many Times: Gender Politics and a Death Sentence in Early Republican Caracas Venezuela Chapter 3 Madame Durocher's Performance: Cross-Dressing Midwifery and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Brazil Chapter 4 Mismeasured Women: Gender and Social Science on the Eve of Female Suffrage in Cuba Chapter 5 "Such a Strong Need": Sexuality and Violence in Belem Prison Chapter 6 "Gentlemanly Responsibility" and "Insults of a Woman": Dueling and the Unwritten Rules of Public Life in Uruguay 1860-1920 Chapter 7 Work Sex and Power in a Central American Export Economy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 8 Dangerous Driving: Adolescence Sex and the Gendered Experience of Public Space in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico City Chapter 9 Doctoring the National Body: Gender Race Eugenics and the "Invert" in Urban Brazil ca. 1920-1945 Chapter 10 Masculinity Primitivism and Power: Gaucho Tango and the Shaping of Argentine National Identity Chapter 11 Gender Sexuality and Revolution: Making Histories and Cultural Politics in Nicaragua 1979-2001 Chapter 12 Gendering the Space of Death: Memory Democratization and the Domestic Chapter 13 Appendix: Mexican Internet Sites for Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender Sexuality and Power in Latin America since Independence Chapter 2 Vicenta Ochoa Dead Many Times: Gender Politics and a Death Sentence in Early Republican Caracas Venezuela Chapter 3 Madame Durocher's Performance: Cross-Dressing Midwifery and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Brazil Chapter 4 Mismeasured Women: Gender and Social Science on the Eve of Female Suffrage in Cuba Chapter 5 "Such a Strong Need": Sexuality and Violence in Belem Prison Chapter 6 "Gentlemanly Responsibility" and "Insults of a Woman": Dueling and the Unwritten Rules of Public Life in Uruguay 1860-1920 Chapter 7 Work Sex and Power in a Central American Export Economy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 8 Dangerous Driving: Adolescence Sex and the Gendered Experience of Public Space in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico City Chapter 9 Doctoring the National Body: Gender Race Eugenics and the "Invert" in Urban Brazil ca. 1920-1945 Chapter 10 Masculinity Primitivism and Power: Gaucho Tango and the Shaping of Argentine National Identity Chapter 11 Gender Sexuality and Revolution: Making Histories and Cultural Politics in Nicaragua 1979-2001 Chapter 12 Gendering the Space of Death: Memory Democratization and the Domestic Chapter 13 Appendix: Mexican Internet Sites for Gender and Sexuality
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