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Securing sex : morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil / / Benjamin A. Cowan



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Autore: Cowan Benjamin A. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Securing sex : morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil / / Benjamin A. Cowan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016
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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
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908490-1-4
1-4696-2751-5
1-4696-2752-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798163503321
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