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Contested Ground
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Contested Ground

The Spanish empire in the Americas spanned two continents and a vast diversity of peoples and landscapes. Yet intriguing parallels characterized conquest, colonization, and indigenous resistance along its northern and southern frontiers, from the role played by Jesuit missions in the subjugation of native peoples to the emergence of livestock industries, with their attendant cowboys and gauchos and threats of Indian raids. In this book, nine historians, three anthropologists, and one sociologist compare and contrast these fringes of New Spain between 1500 and 1880, showing that in each region the frontier represented contested ground where different cultures and polities clashed in ways here...

Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Sex and Sexuality in Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-02
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Organized around three central themes - control and repression; the politics and culture of resistance; and sexual transgression as affirmation of marginalized identity - this intriguing collection will challenge and inform conceptions of Latin American sexuality.

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead brings together a diverse set of essays exploring topics ranging from public health and child welfare to criminality and industrialization. What the essays have in common is their gendered connection to work, family, and the rise of increasingly interventionist nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina. Donna J. Guy first looks at Latin American women from a general and international perspective. She explores which paradigms are most useful in studying gender history in Latin America. She also addresses the evolution of the Pan-American Child Congresses as well as the politics of Pan-American cooperation in relation to child welfare issues. Later essays focus on Argentina in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Guy looks at how women were affected by systems of forced labor, and she illuminates changes in the concept of patria potestad, or the right of male heads of households to control family members' labor. Other essays address such issues as public health, white slavery, and public notions of motherhood in Argentina.

Imposing Decency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Imposing Decency

The interrelationship between sexuality and national identity during Puerto Rico's transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism.

Selling French Sex
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Selling French Sex

This illuminating global history challenges the notion that coercion alone dictated women's migrations for work in the sex industry.

More Argentine Than You
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

More Argentine Than You

Hyland shows how Syrians and Lebanese, Christians, Jews, and Muslims adapted to local social and political conditions, entered labor markets, established community institutions, raised families, and attempted to pursue their individual dreams and community goals in early twentieth century Argentina.

Until I Find You
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Until I Find You

The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption--but in 1986 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat met a woman who strongly resembled her. Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat's mother at all, but a jaladora--a baby broker. Some 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from familie...

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 690

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America

DIVCollection of essays which compares the gendered aspects of state formation in Latin Ameri can nations and includes new material arising out of recent feminist work in history, political science and sociology./div

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visuality Includes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuries Highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe Features innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices