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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernández, Bernadine Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages).
ISBN:9781469667911

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