Cleansing honor with blood masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 /

Cleansing honor with blood masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santos, Martha S. (Martha Sofia), 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Masculinity > Brazil > Ceará (State) > History > 19th century.
Men > Brazil > Ceará (State) > History > 19th century.
Machismo > Brazil > Ceará (State) > History > 19th century.
Violence > Brazil > Ceará (State) > History > 19th century.
Power (Social sciences) > Brazil > Ceará (State) > History > 19th century.
Honor > Brazil > Ceará (State) > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Brazil > Ceará (State) > History > 19th century.
Ceara (Brazil : State) > Social conditions > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • A brief moment of prosperity : land, opportunity, and autonomy, 1845-70
  • Unruly soldiers and honorable providers : paradoxes of masculinity and state formation in the backlands, 1840s-89
  • Poor but respectable : community, family, and the gendered negotiation of daily life, 1845-89
  • A changing world : deprivation, dislocation, and the disruption of honorable masculinity, 1865-89
  • Masculinity challenged and affirmed : autonomous women, men, and violent patriarchy, 1865-89
  • Of courage and manhood : masculine spaces, violence, and honor, 1865-89.

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