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  • A Miscarriage of Justice

    Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil

    by Cassia Roth ...
    A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the onset of republicanism in 1889, women's reproductive capabilities—their ability to conceive and raise future citizens and laborers—became critical to the expansion of the new Brazilian state. Analyzing court cases, law, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Intimate Politics

    Fertility Control in Global Historical Perspective

    Edited by Cassia Roth, Diana Paton ...
    This book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women’s bodies.Across the globe, women have always controlled their fertility through intimate efforts ultimately tied to larger political processes and gendered power dynamics. Women’s biological reproductive capabilities have been contested sites of power struggles, shaping the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Trajectories of Empire

    Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora

    by Abreu Alberto, Lucia Helena Costigan, Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Eliseo Jacob, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Manuel Olmedo Gobante, Cassia Roth, Maria Andrea dos Santos Soares, Miguel A. Valerio, Elizabeth Wright ...
    Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent and of their ancestors in the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

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  • Eugenics

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    by Philippa Levine ...
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    In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed to using the principles of heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage unhealthy ... Read more

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  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
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    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

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  • Democracy

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    by Naomi Zack ...
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  • Mestizo State

    Reading Race in Modern Mexico

    by Joshua Lund ...
    The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on ... Read more

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  • Pushback

    The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion

    by Mary Fissell ...
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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

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  • Sex at the Margins

    Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry

    by Laura María Agustin ...
    This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that ... Read more

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