Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands

Author/Contributor(s):	Hernandez, Bernadine Marie
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	06/07/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Hernâandez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history. Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, she uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters, testimonios, court cases, short stories, and photographs to reveal how sex, violence, and capital conspired to govern not only women's bodies but their role in the changing American Southwest"--