Cowan, Benjamin A., <br/><br/>
Securing sex :  morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil / 
Benjamin A. Cowan. 
 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> " ... 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469627526 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social values--History--Brazil--20th century.<br/>Cold War--Social aspects--Brazil.<br/>Sexual ethics--History--Brazil--20th century.<br/>Conservatism--History--Brazil--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN290  / .S438 2016