Securing sex morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil
Introduction: that is communism today: envisioning the internal enemyOnly 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: m...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
2016
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| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: that is communism today: envisioning the internal enemyOnly 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. " ... 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"-- " ... 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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 324 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781469627502 978-1-4696-2750-2 |