Gender, sexuality, and power in Latin America since independence / / edited by William E. French and Katherine Elaine Bliss

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452651803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2007]; ©2007
• ISBN: 0-7425-3743-9; 0-7425-8136-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Collana: Jaguar books on Latin America series
• Disciplina: 306.7098
• Soggetti: Sex role - Latin America; Sex and history - Latin America; Power (Social sciences) - Latin America; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence William E. French and Katherine Elaine Bliss; 1 Vicenta Ochoa, Dead Many Times: Gender, Politics, and a Death Sentence in Early Republican Caracas, Venezuela Arlene J. Díaz; 2 Madame Durocher's Performance: Cross-Dressing, Midwifery, and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Erica M. Windler; 3 Mismeasured Women: Gender and Social Science on the Eve of Female Suffrage in Cuba Alejandra Bronfman; 4 ""Such a Strong Need"": Sexuality and Violence in Belem Prison Pablo Piccato5 ""Gentlemanly Responsibility"" and ""Insults of a Woman"": Dueling and the Unwritten Rules of Public Life in Uruguay,1860-1920 David S. Parker; 6 Work, Sex, and Power in a Central American Export Economy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Lara E. Putnam; 7 Dangerous Driving: Adolescence, Sex, and the Gendered Experience of Public Space in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico City Katherine Elaine Bliss and Ann S. Blum; 8 Doctoring the National Body: Gender, Race, Eugenics, and the ""Invert» in Urban Brazil, ca. 1920-1945 James N. Green9 Masculinity, ; Primitivism, and Power: Gaucho, Tango, and the Shaping of Argentine National Identity Eduardo P. Archetti; 10 Gender, Sexuality, and Revolution: Making Histories and Cultural Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-2001 Cymene Howe; 11 Gendering the Space of Death: Memory, Democratization, and the Domestic Lessie Jo Frazier; Appendix: Mexican Internet Sites for Gender and Sexuality Wendy A. Vogt; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: This innovative volume of original primary research integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these processes. Focusing on subjects as varied as murder, motherhood and the death penalty in early Republican Venezuela, dueling in Uruguay, midwifery in Brazil, youth culture in Mexico, and revolution in Nicaragua, contributors explore the many ways that

Plague ports [[electronic resource] ] : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901 / / Myron Echenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782712203321
• Autore: Echenberg Myron J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8147-2282-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.5/732
• Soggetti: Plague - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1. An Unexampled Calamity -- 2. City of the Plague -- 3. The Plague Has at Last Arrived -- 4. They Have a Love of Clean Underlinen and of Fresh Air -- 5. A Bubonic Plague Epidemic Does Not Exist in This Country Buenos Aires, 1900 -- 6. The Victory of Hygiene, Good Taste, and Art -- 7. Plague in Paradise -- 8. Black Plague Creeps ; into America -- 9. The Inhabitants of Sydney No More Go Barefoot Than Do the Inhabitants of London -- 10. It Is a Miracle We Are Not Visited by a Black Plague -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three “pearls” of the Pacific; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in South America; Alexandria and Cape Town in Africa; and Oporto in Europe.Myron Echenberg examines plague's impact in each of these cities, on the politicians, the medical and public health authorities, and especially on the citizenry, many of whom were recent migrants crammed into grim living spaces. He looks at how different cultures sought to cope with the challenge of deadly epidemic disease, and explains the political, racial, and medical ineptitudes and ignorance that allowed the plague to flourish. The forces of globalization and industrialization, Echenberg argues, had so increased the transmission of microorganisms that infectious disease pandemics were likely, if not inevitable.This fascinating, expansive history, enlivened by harrowing photographs and maps of each city, sheds light on urbanism and modernity at the turn of the century, as well as on glaring public health inequalities. With the recent outbreaks of SARS and avian flu, and ongoing fears of bioterrorism, Plague Ports offers a necessary and timely historical lesson.