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Book Los Invisibles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Cleminson
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2011-07-15
  • ISBN : 070832469X
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Los Invisibles written by Richard Cleminson and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, Los Invisibles focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.

Book Discordant Notes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Llano
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-31
  • ISBN : 0199392471
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Discordant Notes written by Samuel Llano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts. Recent decades have seen a surge of interest on the effects of sound the urban space and its population. These studies analyse how sound generates identities that are often fragmentary and mutually conflicting. They also explore the ways in which sound triggers campaigns against the negative effects of noise on the nerves and health of the population. Little research has been carried out about the impact of sound and music in areas of broader social and political concern such as social aid, hygiene and social control. Based on a detailed study of Madrid from the 1850s to the 1930s, Discordant Notes argues that sound and music have played a key role in structuring the transition to modernity by helping to negotiate social attitudes and legal responses to problems such as poverty, insalubrity, and crime. Attempts to control the social groups that own unwanted musical practices such as organ grinding and flamenco performances in taverns raised awareness about public hygiene, alcoholism and crime, and triggered legal reform in these areas. In addition to scapegoating, marginalising and persecuting these musical practices, the authorities and the media used workhouse bands as instruments of social control to spread "aural hygiene" across the city.

Book Women s Lives in Colonial Quito

Download or read book Women s Lives in Colonial Quito written by Kimberly Gauderman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito

Book Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America

Download or read book Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America written by Asunci¢n Lavrin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few decisions in life should be more personal than the choice of a spouse or lover. Yet, throughout history, this intimate experience has been subjected to painstaking social and religious regulation in the form of legislation and restraining social mores." With that statement, Asunción Lavrin begins her introduction to this collection of original essays, the first in English to explore sexuality and marriage in colonial Latin America. The nine contributors, including historians and anthropologists, examine various aspects of the male-female relationship and the mechanisms for controlling it developed by church and state after the European conquest of Mexico and Central and South America. Seldom has so much light been shed on the sexual behavior of the men and women who lived there from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. These chapters examine the variety of sexual expression in different periods and among persons of different social and economic status, the relations of the sexes as proscribed by church and state and the various forms of resistance to their constraints, the couple's own view of the bond that united them and of their social obligations in producing a family, and the dissolution of that bond. Topics infrequently explored in Latin American history but discussed her include premarital relations, illegitimacy, consensual unions, sexual witchcraft, spouse abuse, and divorce. Lavrin's opening survey of the forms of sexual relationships most discussed in ecclesiastical sources serves as a point of departure for the chapters that follow. The contributors are Serge Grunzinski, Ann Twinam, Kathy Waldron, Ruth Behar, Susan Socolow, Richard Boyer, Thomas Calvo, and María Beatriz Nizza da Silva. Asunción Lavrin is a professor of history at Arizona State University at Tempe. Her 1995 book, Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940, won the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize from the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies.

Book Martin s Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans  and in the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana     By Francois Xavier Martin  With Marginal References by T  G  Morgan  and J  W  Gurley  Index  Etc

Download or read book Martin s Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans and in the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana By Francois Xavier Martin With Marginal References by T G Morgan and J W Gurley Index Etc written by LOUISIANA, State of. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 3 000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won t Teach You in School

Download or read book 3 000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won t Teach You in School written by Eleanor Hamer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a difference between learning a language and being able to speak it with the familiarity of a native speaker. This book fills that gap, clarifying tricky words and expressions and illuminating the finer points of Spanish wordplay and double meanings.

Book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana and in the Superior Court of the Territory of Louisiana

Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana and in the Superior Court of the Territory of Louisiana written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Street Wise Spanish Survival Guide

Download or read book The Street Wise Spanish Survival Guide written by Eleanor Hamer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were dropped into the middle of Managua, Mexico City, or Miami, would you know how to speak not only the language, but also the lingo? In The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide, the reader who is already familiar with Spanish will discover the banter and metaphor (both polite and rude) that enrich the spoken language as it is really used, hints on avoiding embarrassing mistakes in grammar, and a list of dreaded false cognates. Full of advice on pronunciation and tips on customs and manners, and keyed with time-saving symbols, this is the best guide available to understanding and appreciating Spanish as it is spoken in Latin America and the United States.

Book The Things of Others  Ethnographies  Histories  and Other Artefacts

Download or read book The Things of Others Ethnographies Histories and Other Artefacts written by Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s.

Book The Women of Colonial Latin America

Download or read book The Women of Colonial Latin America written by Susan Migden Socolow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.

Book Louisiana Reports

Download or read book Louisiana Reports written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louisiana Term Reports     By F  X  Martin  1813  March Term 1823

Download or read book Louisiana Term Reports By F X Martin 1813 March Term 1823 written by LOUISIANA, State of. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women in the Crucible of Conquest

Download or read book Women in the Crucible of Conquest written by Karen Vieira Powers and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.

Book New dictionary of the Spanish and English languages

Download or read book New dictionary of the Spanish and English languages written by José M. Lopes and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuban Counterpoints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mauricio Augusto Font
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780739109687
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Cuban Counterpoints written by Mauricio Augusto Font and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the social sciences--notably anthropology--and law, religion and national identity, literature, and music. Presenting Ortiz's seminal thinking, including his profoundly influential concept of 'transculturation', Cuban Counterpoints explores the bold new perspectives that he brought to bear on Cuban society. Much of his most challenging and provocative thinking--which embraced simultaneity, conflict, inherent contradiction and hybridity--has remarkable relevance for current debates about Latin America's complex and evolving societies.

Book A Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages written by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.