Title Border bodies : racialized sexuality, sexual capital, and violence in the nineteenth-century borderlands / Bernadine Marie Hernández

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Introduction: Sexual frontiers, racialized bodies, and sexual capital -- The oikopolitic : the father of all, brokering of the Californiana body, and the "natural order of things" in alta California -- Circuits of brown, black, and red : the politics of racialized gender and sexuality in the nineteenth-century borderlands -- Absent presence : the ghost of the "only woman hanged" in Texas and the abstract labor of gender racial formations -- Productive racialized sex : the sexual economy of the southwest borderlands, the nuevomexicana body politic, and memory archives -- Technology of "unproductive" brown bodies : the political economy of prostitution and racialized sexual pathology in Arizona at the turn of the century Summary "In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Hernández brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history. Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, she uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters, testimonios, court cases, short stories, and photographs to reveal how sex, violence, and capital conspired to govern not only women's bodies but their role in the changing American Southwest"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2022) Subject Capitalism -- Southwest, New -- History Sexual abuse victims -- Southwest, New -- History Sex crimes -- Southwest, New -- History Mexican American women -- Southwest, New -- History Women -- Southwest, New -- History Sex role -- Southwest, New -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies Women Sexual abuse victims Sex role Sex crimes Mexican American women Capitalism New Southwest Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469667911 1469667916

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