Securing sex
Subtitle: morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil
By: Benjamin A. Cowan
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781469628929; 9781469627502
Subjects: Moral conditions; Social values; Cold War; Sexual ethics; Social conditions; Conservatism; History
Description: " ... 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: that is communism today: envisioning the internal enemy; title: Only for the cause of the pátria: the frustrations of interwar moralism; title: Sexual revolution?: contexts of countersubversive moralism; title: Sexual revolution!: moral panic and the repressive right; title: Drugs, anarchism, and eroticism: moral technocracy and the military regime; title: Young ladies seduced and carried off by terrorists: secrets, spies, and anticommunist moral panic; title: Brazil counts on its sons for redemption: moral, civic, and countersubversive education; title: From pornography to the pill: baguna and the limitations of moralist efficacy; title: Conclusion.