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The Churches and Democracy in Brazil
Brazil is a rapidly emerging country. Brazilian theology, namely the Theology of Liberation, has become well known in the 1970s and 1980s. The politically active Base Ecclesial Communities and the progressive posture of the Roman Catholic Church contrasted with a steadily growing number of evangelicals, mostly aligned with the military regime but attractive precisely to the poor. After democratic transition in the mid-1980s, the context changed considerably. Democracy, growing religious pluralism and mobility, a vibrant civil society, the political ascension of the Worker's Party and growing wealth, albeit within a continuously wide social gap, are some of the elements that show the need of ...
A Companion to Public Theology
Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Public theology has emerged in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as theologians have increasingly entered the public square to engage complex issues. This Companion to Public Theology brings a much-needed resource to this relatively new field. The essays contained here bring a robust and relevant faith perspective to a wide range of issues as well as foundational biblical and theological perspectives which equip theologians to enter into public dialogue. Public theology has never been more needed in public discourse, whether local or global. In conversation across disciplines its contribution to the construction of just polici...
The Other Fridas
The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different countries, and seeks to understand their artistic contributions and their complex lives. Frida Kahlo is one of the most recognizable women artists of the Western world and an icon of feminism. Yet, Latin America has produced many other women artists who, like Kahlo, challenged conventions of their day, transgressed gender stereotypes, and significantly contributed to cultural and artistic realms. Most have been overshadowed by their male counterparts; and while some have been recognized in their home countries, the vast majority have remained in obscurity at home and abroad. This collection brings together sixteen essays, and features such artists as Chilean composer Violeta Parra, Cuban painter Belkis Ayón, nineteenth-century Portuguese-Brazilian actress Maria Velluti, Puerto Rican painter and sculptor Luisa Géigel Brunet, and many more. This book celebrates the lives and creativity of these underrecognized artists, and the contributions that they have made towards Latin American art.
Hiding Mengele
Read the international sensation already translated into 10 languages! Unearthing the network that hid the 'Angel of Death,' the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades. In 1985, Betina Anton watched Brazilian authorities apprehend her kindergarten teacher for allegedly using false documents to bury in secrecy the remains of Josef Mengele, known worldwide for cruel human experiments and for sending thousands to the Auschwitz gas chambers. Decades later, as an experienced journalist disturbed by the mysteries surrounding the departure of Austrian expat Liselotte Bossert, Anton set out to find her and see if the rumors were true. She could not imagine how deeply in...
Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World
This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies. Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Paulo Silvestre.
Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire (1921-97), who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War. A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire developed adult literacy training techniques that involved consciousness-raising, encouraging peasants and newly urban people...
Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education
Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages, and is engaged by, a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores the resistance to that structure, including: different ways...
Futbolera
Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbolera is the first monograph on women’s sports in Latin America. Because sports evoke such passion, they are fertile ground for understanding the formation of social classes, national and racial identities, sexuality, and gender roles. Futbolera tells the stories of women athletes and fans as they navigated the pressures and possibilities within organized sports. Futbolera charts the rise of physical education programs for girls, often driven by ideas of eugenics and proper motherhood, that laid the groundwork for women’s sports clubs, which bega...
Catarinas, Pafúncias e Hermengardas: construções de personagens femininas em Contos de João Antônio
O contista João Antônio Ferreira Filho (1937-1996), paulistano criado em modestos bairros operários da periferia da cidade de São Paulo, recriou literariamente o universo dos marginalizados – jogadores de sinuca, punguistas, otários, moleques de rua, bêbados, prostitutas, guardadores de automóveis, soldados, porteiros de casa noturna, cafetões, pedintes, traficantes e malandros. São raríssimas as protagonistas no universo desse autor; porém, são constantes as personagens femininas nos escritos do contista – sempre mulheres relegadas a segundo plano dentro das relações de poder que se estabelecem em um relacionamento de bases patriarcais entre um homem e uma mulher. Não se ...
Violência Doméstica e Familiar contra a Mulher
Endêmica no Brasil, a violência doméstica contra a mulher é comprovada estatisticamente por ONGs, órgãos públicos, atividades policiais e forenses, em cujo cotidiano a criminalidade intralares ocupa significativo espaço. O livro é fruto de reflexões serenas de seu autor, que objetivam iniciar o debate sobre a Lei nº 11.340/06 (Lei Maria da Penha) não apenas com um olhar estanque do ordenamento jurídico, mas principalmente sobre seu impacto sobre o sistema legal preexistente. Pretende-se, nesta 3ª edição, debater temas novos como a aplicação da Lei 11.340/06 aos transexuais, o julgamento, pelo STF, da ADI 4424, que trata da natureza da ação penal nos crimes de lesões corporais contra a mulher em situação de violência doméstica e familiar enfatizar pontos já abordados como as aplicações da justiça restaurativa em casos de violência doméstica além de assumir até mesmo novos entendimentos em relação a alguns assuntos já versados nas edições anteriores.
