Securing sex : morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil / Benjamin A. Cowan.
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TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Brazil -- Social conditions -- 1964-1985
- Brazil -- Moral conditions
- Social values -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
- Cold War -- Social aspects -- Brazil
- Sexual ethics -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
- Conservatism -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
- Brésil -- Conditions sociales -- 1964-1985
- Valeurs sociales -- Brésil -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Guerre froide -- Aspect social -- Brésil
- Morale sexuelle -- Brésil -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Conservatisme -- Brésil -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- 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
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- 1900-1999
- 306.0981 23
- HN290.Z9 M636 2016eb
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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.
" ... 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"-- Provided by publisher
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