|9780822968948|Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina|Under dictatorship in Argentina, sex and sexuality were regulated to the point where sex education, explicit images, and even suggestive material were prohibited. With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms. The explosion of the availability and ubiquity of sexual material became known as the destape, and it uncovered sexuality in provocative ways. This was a mass-media phenomenon, but it went beyond this. It was, in effect, a deeper process of change in sexual ideologies and practices. By exploring the boom of sex therapy and sexology; the fight…

|9780822968795|The Brazilianization of the Paraguayan Middle Class during the Stroessner Dictatorship|Hotel Guaraní considers how Brazilian economic and cultural norms shaped Paraguayan consumer culture in the middle decades of the twentieth century, studying the period that Alfredo Stroessner ruled Paraguay as a dictator (1954–1989). Bridget María Chesterton illustrates how, in the wake of new infrastructural links, Paraguay embraced a Brazilian model of modernity and consumption. Argentina borders Paraguay to the west and south and was long Paraguay’s most important partner. But in the 1960s, the construction of the Acaray Dam and a bridge over the Paraná River ushered a cultural and…

|9780822949367|The Brazilianization of the Paraguayan Middle Class during the Stroessner Dictatorship|Hotel Guaraní considers how Brazilian economic and cultural norms shaped Paraguayan consumer culture in the middle decades of the twentieth century, studying the period that Alfredo Stroessner ruled Paraguay as a dictator (1954–1989). Bridget María Chesterton illustrates how, in the wake of new infrastructural links, Paraguay embraced a Brazilian model of modernity and consumption. Argentina borders Paraguay to the west and south and was long Paraguay’s most important partner. But in the 1960s, the construction of the Acaray Dam and a bridge over the Paraná River ushered a cultural and…

|9780822968443|Chinese-Peruvian Bonds, Loves, and Friendships|Affective Economies of Migration offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific migration. Challenging conventional historical and literary frameworks, Lorena Cuya Gavilano demonstrates how emotions such as love, longing, loss, and hope played a crucial role in enabling social mobility, facilitating community integration, and reshaping the collective trajectory of Chinese Peruvians. Letters, literature, interviews, newspapers, and archival documentation reveal social connections, social change, and upward mobility in communities…

|9780822949275|Chinese-Peruvian Bonds, Loves, and Friendships|Affective Economies of Migration offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific migration. Challenging conventional historical and literary frameworks, Lorena Cuya Gavilano demonstrates how emotions such as love, longing, loss, and hope played a crucial role in enabling social mobility, facilitating community integration, and reshaping the collective trajectory of Chinese Peruvians. Letters, literature, interviews, newspapers, and archival documentation reveal social connections, social change, and upward mobility in communities…