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Cleansing honor with blood : masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 /
This critical reinterpretation of male violence, patriarchy, and machismo in rural Latin America focusses 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 widely accepted depic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A brief moment of prosperity : land, opportunity, and autonomy, 1845-70
- Unruly soldiers and honorable providers : paradoxes of masculinity and state formation in the backlands, 1840s-89
- Poor but respectable : community, family, and the gendered negotiation of daily life, 1845-89
- A changing world : deprivation, dislocation, and the disruption of honorable masculinity, 1865-89
- Masculinity challenged and affirmed : autonomous women, men, and violent patriarchy, 1865-89
- Of courage and manhood : masculine spaces, violence, and honor, 1865-89.