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Securing sex :

Cowan, Benjamin A.,

Securing sex : morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil / Benjamin A. Cowan. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: that is communism today: envisioning the internal enemy -- Only for the cause of the p�atria: 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"--

9781469627526 1469627523 9781469627519 1469627515

22573/ctt17rvwcg JSTOR


1900-1999


Social values--History--Brazil--20th century.
Cold War--Social aspects--Brazil.
Sexual ethics--History--Brazil--20th century.
Conservatism--History--Brazil--20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
HISTORY--Modern--20th Century.
Conservatism.
Moral conditions.
Sexual ethics.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Social values.


Brazil--Social conditions--1964-1985.
Brazil--Moral conditions.
Brazil.


Electronic books.
History.

HN290.Z9 / M636 2016eb

306.0981