Border Bodies : Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands /

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"In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Hernández brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history. Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, she uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hernández, Bernadine Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
Sexual abuse victims.
Sex role.
Sex crimes.
Mexican American women.
Capitalism.
Capitalism > Southwest, New > History.
Sexual abuse victims > Southwest, New > History.
Sex crimes > Southwest, New > History.
Mexican American women > Southwest, New > History.
Women > Southwest, New > History.
Sex role > Southwest, New > History.
New Southwest.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Hernández brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history. Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, she uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters, testimonios, court cases, short stories, and photographs to reveal how sex, violence, and capital conspired to govern not only women's bodies but their role in the changing American Southwest"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (244 pages).
ISBN:9781469667911

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