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Book SynopsisExplores the changing meanings of honour in early-20th-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honour, and national progress. This title reveals how everyday interpretations of honour influenced official attitudes and even the law itself as Brazil attempted to modernise.
Trade Review“The author is to be applauded for asking hard questions about the ways in which sexual activity, or the lack thereof, are used to make statements about race and class.”—Jeffrey Lesser, author of
Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil“This is an outstanding work both in terms of its highly original research and its very sophisticated interpretation.”—Barbara Weinstein, author of
For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964
