Cleansing honor with blood [electronic resource] : masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 / Martha S. Santos.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.Description: xvii, 295 pSubject(s): - 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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- HQ1090.7.B6 S26 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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