In Defense of Honor
Subtitle: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: July 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780822323983
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Sociology; Latin America - South America; History; Virginity; Social Science; History - General History; Legal History; Human Sexuality; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; History, Latin American; Legal Studies; Brazil; Sociology - General; Anthropology - General; 20th century; Sex customs; Sexual ethics
First sentence: At the end of the nineteenth century and through the first three decades of the twentieth, Brazilian legal-medical specialists produced a substantial literature on the study of the hymen, counting themselves increasingly among the world's foremost authorities on its morphology.