Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America

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

Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

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William E. French

Katherine Elaine Bliss

Vicenta Ochoa, Dead Many Times: Gender, Politics, and a Death Sentence in Early Republican Caracas, Venezuela

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Arlene J. Diaz

Madame Durocher's Performance: Cross-Dressing, Midwifery, and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

52

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Erica M. Windler

Mismeasured Women: Gender and Social Science on the Eve of Female Suffrage in Cuba

71

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Alejandra Bronfman

``Such a Strong Need'': Sexuality and Violence in Belem Prison

87

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Pablo Piccato

``Gentlemanly Responsibility'' and ``Insults of a Woman'': Dueling and the Unwritten Rules of Public Life in Uruguay, 1860--1920

109

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David S. Parker

Work, Sex, and Power in a Central American Export Economy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

133

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Lara E. Putnam

Dangerous Driving: Adolescence, Sex, and the Gendered Experience of Public Space in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico City

163

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Katherine Elaine Bliss

Ann S. Blum

Doctoring the National Body: Gender, Race, Eugenics, and the ``Invert'' in Urban Brazil, ca. 1920--1945

187

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James N. Green

Masculinity, Primitivism, and Power: Gaucho, Tango, and the Shaping of Argentine National Identity

212

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Eduardo P. Archetti

Gender, Sexuality, and Revolution: Making Histories and Cultural Politics in Nicaragua, 1979--2001

230

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Cymene Howe

Gendering the Space of Death: Memory, Democratization, and the Domestic

261

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Lessie Jo Frazier

Appendix: Mexican Internet Sites for Gender and Sexuality

283

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Wendy A. Vogt

Bibliography

291

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Index

301

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About the Contributors

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