Securing sex : morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil / / Benjamin A. Cowan
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.0981 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social values - Brazil - History - 20th century |
| Cold War - Social aspects - Brazil | |
| Sexual ethics - Brazil - History - 20th century | |
| Conservatism - Brazil - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Brazil Social conditions 1964-1985 |
| Brazil Moral conditions | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | " ... 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 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Securing sex |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-2751-5 |
| 1-4696-2752-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910466060803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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