TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowan,Benjamin A.
TI  - Securing sex: morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil 
SN  - 9781469627526
AV  - HN290.Z9 M636 2016eb
U1  - 306.0981 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Social values
KW  - Brazil
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sexual ethics
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - Valeurs sociales
KW  - Brésil
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Guerre froide
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Morale sexuelle
KW  - Conservatisme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Modern
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - fast
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1964-1985
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: that is communism today: envisioning the internal enemy -- Only for the cause of the pátria: 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
N2  - " ... 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"--
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