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

"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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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Sexual Frontiers, Racialized Bodies, and Sexual Capital
  • The Oikopolitic: The Father of All, Brokering of the Californiana Body, and the "Natural Order of Things" in Alta California
  • Circuits of Brown, Black, and Red: The Politics of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands
  • Absent Presence: The Ghost of the "Only Woman Hanged" in Texas and the Abstract Labor of Gender Racial Formations
  • Productive Racialized Sex: The Sexual Economy of the Southwest Borderlands, the Nuevomexicana Body Politic, and Memory Archives
  • Technology of "Unproductive" Brown Bodies: The Political Economy of Prostitution and Racialized Sexual Pathology in Arizona at the Turn of the Century.