Intimate Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intimate Frontiers write by Albert L. Hurtado. This book was released on 2016-04-25. Intimate Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags--those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea journeys, and in San Francisco. In these settings Hurtado explores courtship, marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and women--whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chinese, or of mixed blood--fit into or reshaped the roles and identities set by their race and gender. Hurtado introduces two themes in delineating his intimate frontiers. One was a libertine California, and some of its delights were heartily described early in the 1850s: "[Gold] dust was plentier than pleasure, pleasure more enticing than virtue. Fortune was the horse, youth in the saddle, dissipation the track, and desire the spur." Not all the times were good or giddy, and in the tragedy of a teenage domestic who died in a botched abortion or a brutalized Indian woman we see the seamy underside of gender relations on the frontier. The other theme explored is the reaction of citizens who abhorred the loss of moral standards and sought to suppress excess. Their efforts included imposing all the stabilizing customs of whichever society dominated California--during the Hispanic period,arranged marriages and concern for family honor were the norm; among the Anglos, laws regulated prostitution,missionaries railed against vices, and "proper" women were brought in to help "civilize" the frontier.
Intimate Frontiers
Intimate Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intimate Frontiers write by Albert L. Hurtado. This book was released on 1999-04. Intimate Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
Intimate Frontiers
Intimate Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intimate Frontiers write by Felipe Martínez-Pinzón. This book was released on 2019-05-24. Intimate Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions about the region —its gigantism, its richness, its exceptionality, among other— choosing to approach these rather from quotidian, everyday experiences of a more intimate nature. The multinational, pluriethnic corpus of texts critically examined here, explores a wide range of cultural artifacts including travelogues, diaries, and novels about the rubber boom genocide, as well as indigenous oral histories, documentary films, and photography about the region. The different voices gathered in this book show that the richness of the Amazon lays not in its natural resources or opportunities for economic exploit, but in the richness of its histories/stories in the form of songs, oral histories, images, material culture, and texts.
Intimate Frontiers
Intimate Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intimate Frontiers write by Felipe Martínez-Pinzón. This book was released on 2019. Intimate Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.
Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality write by Joane Nagel. This book was released on 2003. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What do race, ethnicity and nationalism have to do with sex, and vice versa? This title uses examples to examine how sex shapes ideas and feelings about race, ethnicity and national identity and how sexual images, fears and desires shape racial, ethnic and national stereotypes and conflicts.
