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Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis Jul 2011

Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

If pornography proves a problematic avenue within women’s bid for sexual liberation and equality today, how then has this historically been constructed? In an attempt to determine the role of pornography within articulations of women’s sexual (in)equality, I use a banned pornographic magazine published in 1930s Mexico as the starting point for a broader examination of the relationships between female sexual visibility and modernity, and sexual normativity and the state. Employing the Foucaultian methodology of genealogy, I trace popular representations of female sexuality as well as civic discourse on sexual prohibitions through space (from the USA and Europe to Mexico) …


Naccs 38th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 2011

Naccs 38th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Sites of Education for Social Justice
March 30-April 2, 2011
The Westin Pasadena


Casamentos Portugueses Em Uma Capital Da Amazônia: Perfil Demográfico, Normas E Redes Sociais (Belém, 1891-1920), Cristina Donza Cancela, Daniel S. Barroso Jan 2011

Casamentos Portugueses Em Uma Capital Da Amazônia: Perfil Demográfico, Normas E Redes Sociais (Belém, 1891-1920), Cristina Donza Cancela, Daniel S. Barroso

Daniel S. Barroso

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