Cleansing honor with blood masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 /
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Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
c2012.
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Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10518327 |
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.