Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold by Benjamin A. Cowan PDF

By Benjamin A. Cowan

ISBN-10: 1469627507

ISBN-13: 9781469627502

ISBN-10: 1469628929

ISBN-13: 9781469628929

during this historical past of right-wing politics in Brazil through the chilly battle, Benjamin Cowan places the highlight at the chilly Warriors themselves. Drawing on little-tapped archival documents, he exhibits that through midcentury, conservatives--individuals and companies, civilian in addition to military--were firmly located in a transnational community of right-wing cultural activists. They subsequently joined the robust hardline constituency aiding Brazil's brutal army dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. There, they lent their weight to a dictatorship that, Cowan argues, operationalized an ethical panic that conflated communist subversion with manifestations of modernity, coalescing round the the most important nodes of gender and sexuality, relatively relating to adolescence, ladies, and the mass media.

The confluence of an empowered correct and a safety institution suffused with rightist moralism created strongholds of anticommunism that spanned govt businesses, spurred repression, and generated makes an attempt to regulate or even swap quotidian habit. monitoring how limits to chilly battle authoritarianism ultimately emerged, Cowan concludes that the checklist of autocracy and repression in Brazil is a part of a bigger tale of response opposed to perceived threats to conventional perspectives of relations, gender, ethical criteria, and sexuality--a tale that maintains in modern tradition wars.

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