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Cleansing honor with blood : masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889.
This book offers a critical reinterpretation of male violence, patriarchy, and machismo in rural Latin America. It focuses on the lives of lower-class men and women, known as sertanejo/as, in the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceará between 1845 and 1889. Challenging the wide...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; A Note on Weights, Measures, Brazilian Currency, and Orthography; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A Brief Moment of Prosperity: Land, Opportunity, and Autonomy,1845-70; 2. Unruly Soldiers and Honorable Providers: Paradoxes of Masculinity and State Formation in the Backlands, 1840s-89; 3. Poor but Respectable: Community, Family, and the Gendered Negotiation of Daily Life, 1845-89; 4. A Changing World: Deprivation, Dislocation, and the Disruptionof Honorable Masculinity, 1865-89.
- 5. Masculinity Challenged and Affirmed: Autonomous Women, Men, and Violent Patriarchy, 1865-896. Of Courage and Manhood: Masculine Spaces, Violence, and Honor, 1865-89; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.