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BL
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850173
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| Main Entry
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Cowan, Benjamin A.
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| Title & Author
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Securing sex : : morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil /\ Benjamin A. Cowan.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: The University of North Carolina Press,, [2016]
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, ©2016
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1469627515
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: 1469627523
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: 9781469627519
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: 9781469627526
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1469627507
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1469628929
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9781469627502
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9781469628929
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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" ... 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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Cold War-- Social aspects-- Brazil.
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Conservatism-- Brazil-- History-- 20th century.
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Sexual ethics-- Brazil-- History-- 20th century.
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Social values-- Brazil-- History-- 20th century.
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Conservatism.
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HISTORY-- Modern-- 20th Century.
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Moral conditions.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Sexual ethics.
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Social aspects.
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Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Social values.
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Brazil, Moral conditions.
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Brazil, Social conditions, 1964-1985.
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Brazil.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.0981
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| LC Classification
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HN290.Z9M636 2016eb
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