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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hernández, Bernadine Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.