In Defense of Honor - Sueann Caulfield

In Defense of Honor

Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil
Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
2000
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-2377-8 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
Explores the changing meanings of honour in early-twentieth-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honour, and national progress. This book also shows how everyday interpretations of honour influenced official attitudes and the law itself as Brazil attempted to modernise.
In this book Sueann Caulfield explores the changing meanings of honor in early-twentieth-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honor, and national progress. With a close examination of legal theory on sexual offenses and case law in Rio de Janeiro from the end of World War I to the early years of the Estado Novo dictatorship, Caulfield reveals how everyday interpretations of honor influenced official attitudes and even the law itself as Brazil attempted to modernize.
While some Brazilian elites used the issue of sexual purity to boast of their country’s moral superiority, others claimed that the veneration of such concepts as virginity actually frustrated efforts at modernization. Moreover, although individuals of all social classes invoked values they considered “traditional,” such as the confinement of women’s sexuality within marriage, these values were at odds with social practices—such as premarital sex, cohabitation, divorce, and female-headed households—that had been common throughout Brazil’s history. The persistence of these practices, together with post-World War I changes in both official and popular moral ideals, presented formidable obstacles to the Estado Novo’s renewed drive to define and enforce public morality and private family values in the late 1930s.
With sophisticated theoretical underpinnings, In Defense of Honor is written in a clear and lively manner, making it accessible to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including Brazilian and Latin American studies, gender studies, and legal history.

Sueann Caulfield is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.3.2000
Zusatzinfo 1 b&w photograph
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 862 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-8223-2377-X / 082232377X
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-2377-8 / 9780822323778
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