Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

William E. French is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Katherine Elaine Bliss is visiting scholar and adjunct associate professor at the Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender, Sexuality and Power in Latin America since IndependenceChapter 2 Vicenta Ochoa, Dead Many Times: Gender, Politics, and a Death Sentence in Early Republican Caracas, VenezuelaChapter 3 Madame Durocher's Performance: Cross-Dressing, Midwifery, and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, BrazilChapter 4 Mismeasured Women: Gender and Social Science on the Eve of Female Suffrage in CubaChapter 5 "Such a Strong Need": Sexuality and Violence in Belem PrisonChapter 6 "Gentlemanly Responsibility" and "Insults of a Woman": Dueling and the Unwritten Rules of Public Life in Uruguay, 1860-1920Chapter 7 Work, Sex, and Power in a Central American Export Economy at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyChapter 8 Dangerous Driving: Adolescence, Sex, and the Gendered Experience of Public Space in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico CityChapter 9 Doctoring the National Body: Gender, Race, Eugenics, and the "Invert" in Urban Brazil, ca. 1920-1945Chapter 10 Masculinity, Primitivism, and Power: Gaucho, Tango, and the Shaping of Argentine National IdentityChapter 11 Gender, Sexuality, and Revolution: Making Histories and Cultural Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-2001Chapter 12 Gendering the Space of Death: Memory, Democratization, and the DomesticChapter 13 Appendix: Mexican Internet Sites for Gender and Sexuality

This exciting collection showcases many of the best young historians of Latin America. With wide-ranging essays covering much of the Americas—and framed by classic gender/sexuality concepts, discourse analysis, and queer theory—the volume provides groundbreaking new research on gender, sexuality, and power and shows why such studies must be central to all future histories of the region.