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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.