TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowan,Benjamin A.
TI  - Securing sex: morality and repression in the making of Cold War Brazil 
SN  - 9781469627526
AV  - HN290 .S438 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Social values
KW  - Brazil
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sexual ethics
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - " ... 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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