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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469667911 1469667916 |