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Autore |
Cowan Benjamin A. |
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Titolo |
Securing sex : morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil / / Benjamin A. Cowan |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908490-1-4 |
1-4696-2751-5 |
1-4696-2752-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (341 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social values - Brazil - History - 20th century |
Cold War - Social aspects - Brazil |
Sexual ethics - Brazil - History - 20th century |
Conservatism - Brazil - History - 20th century |
Brazil Social conditions 1964-1985 |
Brazil Moral conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: that is communism today: envisioning the internal enemy -- Only for the cause of the pátria: the frustrations of interwar moralism -- Sexual revolution?: contexts of countersubversive moralism -- Sexual revolution!: moral panic and the repressive right -- Drugs, anarchism, and eroticism: moral technocracy and the military regime -- Young ladies seduced and carried off by terrorists: secrets, spies, and anticommunist moral panic -- Brazil counts on its sons for redemption: moral, civic, and countersubversive education -- From pornography to the pill: baguna and the limitations of moralist efficacy -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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" ... a transnational network of right-wing cultural activists. They subsequently joined the powerful hardline constituency supporting Brazil's brutal military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. There, they lent their weight to a dictatorship that, Cowan argues, operationalized a |
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moral panic that conflated communist subversion with manifestations of modernity, coalescing around the crucial nodes of gender and sexuality, particularly in relation to youth, women, and the mass media"-- |
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