{"product_id":"in-defense-of-honor-sexual-morality-modernity-and-nation-in-early-twentieth-century-brazil-paperback","title":"In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSueann Caulfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\tWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\tWith sophisticated theoretical underpinnings, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Honor\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author is to be applauded for asking hard questions about the ways in which sexual activity, or the lack thereof, are used to make statements about race and class.--Jeffrey Lesser, author of \"Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSueann Caulfield is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130344575111,"sku":"9780822323983","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c7e4196c770f25bdaed057490b49ae53.webp?v=1732610109","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/in-defense-of-honor-sexual-morality-modernity-and-nation-in-early-twentieth-century-brazil-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}