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Este libro analiza los diferentes espacios geográficos, maneras de operación diversas, estrategias técnico-administrativas y jurídicas, así como objetos de intervención en los que se evidencia la impronta eugenésica. La eugenesia se convierte entonces en una “caja de herramientas” teóricas y prácticas que estuvieron a disposición de sus ejecutores, quienes, según sus intereses, hacían uso de unas u otras. En el marco de la eugenesia latinoamericana, atravesado por la noción de raza, la obra propone enriquecer la historiografía eugenésica latinoamericana a la luz de una perspectiva situada. En cuanto a la idea de raza, la perspectiva situada destaca que su interpretación f...
La fiera de mi niña, una de las obras más elogiadas del cine clásico y protagonista indiscutible de numerosas listas y antologías que la proclaman como una de las mejores comedias cinematográficas de la historia. Howard Hawks dirigió esta alocada y enérgica visión de la guerra de sexos, dominada por la inversión de roles, y donde ningún personaje parece estar cuerdo. Es una de las piezas más representativas de la denominada comedia screwball, con sus diálogos ingeniosos y vertiginosos, unos personajes variopintos con reacciones irracionales por encima de la lógica y, sobre todo, su confrontación de pares opuestos basada en el antagonismo entre la pareja protagonista. Guion, dir...
This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America. It covers a wide range of topics related to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. Written by Latin American researchers and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it provides an original sociocultural contribution to bioethics and disability studies literature. It presents an in-depth overview of philosophical, ethical, legal, political and social issues. At the same time, it offers a contribution to the global scientific community inasmuch it discusses theoretical references from South America in connection with those from Europe and the United States. The basic questions dealt ...
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged t...
The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.
For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo – anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology. However, a closer look reveals more subtle but equally powerful stories that challenge the homogenizing assumptions of conventional economics and open up scope for more sophisticated reflections on Cuban economy and industry. From this kind of enquiry emerges the case of the internationally respected Cuban biotech industry as the most successful case of science and technology policy in the country’s economic history. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring issues such as interdependency, purpose and history as natural constituencies of the innovation process. It also examines the dynamic and crucial role played by the state in the formation of innovative business enterprises. This book will be of interest to academic researchers in the fields of innovation and economic development.
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As the Cuban Revolution reaches its sixtieth anniversary, contributors to this special issue explore the impact of the revolution through the lens of sexuality and gender, providing a social and cultural history that illuminates the Cuban-influenced global New Left. Moving beyond assumptions about the revolutionary left's hypermasculinity and homophobia, the issue takes a nuanced approach to the Cuban Revolution's impact on gender and sexuality. Contributors study Cuban internationalist campaigns, the relationship between cultural diplomacy and mass media, and visual images of revolution and solidarity. They follow the emergence and negotiation of new gender ideals through the transgendering...