Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reaso

Susan K. Besse broadens our understanding of the political by establishing the relevance of gender for the construction of state hegemony in Brazil after World

This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated wo

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