Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index.
Contents:
Vicenta Ochoa, dead many times: gender, politics, and a death sentence in early republican Caracas, Venezuela / Arlene J. Díaz -- Madame Durocher's performance: cross-dressing, midwifery, and authority in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Erica M. Windler -- Mismeasured women: gender and social science on the eve of female suffrage in Cuba / Alejandra Bronfman -- "Such a strong need": sexuality and violence in Belem prison / Pablo Piccato -- "Gentlemanly responsibility" and "insults of woman": dueling and the unwritten rules of public life in Uruguay, 1860-1920 / David S. Parker -- Work, sex, and power in a central American export economy at the turn of the twentieth century / Lara E. Putnam -- Dangerous driving: adolescence, sex, and the gendered experience of public space in early-twentieth-century Mexico City / Katherine Elaine Bliss, Ann S. Blum -- Doctoring the national body: gender, race, eugenics, and the "invert" in urban Brazil, ca. 1920-1945 / James N. Green -- Masculinity, primitivism, and power: gaucho, tango, and the shaping of Argentine national identity / Eduardo P. Archetti -- Gender, sexuality, and revolution: making histories and cultural politics in Nicaragua, 1979-2001 / Cymene Howe -- Gendering the space of death: memory, democratization, and the domestic / Lessie Jo Frazier.
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