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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
" ... 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Social values -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- Brazil
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Sexual ethics -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
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Conservatism -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Conservatism
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Moral conditions
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Sexual ethics
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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Social values
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| SUBJECT |
Brazil -- Social conditions -- 1964-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016598
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Brazil -- Moral conditions
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Brazil
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469627526 |
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1469627523 |
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9781469627519 |
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1469627515 |
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