Title Sex, skulls, and citizens : gender and racial science in Argentina (1860-1910) / Ashley Elizabeth Kerr

Published Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Scientific Engagements: Women, Sex, and Racial Science -- Chapter 1: Inappropriate Relations: Indigenous Private Lives as a Matter of Public Concern -- Chapter 2: Sex and Specimen: Desiring Indigenous Bodies -- Chapter 3: Displaying Gender: Indigenous Peoples in the Museo de La Plata -- Chapter 4: Degenerates or New Beginnings? Theorizing Racial Mixture in Fiction -- Chapter 5: Defiant Captives and Warrior Queens: Women Repurpose Scientific Racism Conclusion: An Enduring Legacy: The Nineteenth Century in the Twentieth and Twenty-First -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Based on analysis of a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, this book argues that indigenous and white women shaped Argentine scientific racism as well as its application to projects aiming to create a white, civilized nation. The writers studied here, scientists, anthropologists, and novelists, including Estanislao Zeballos, Lucio and Eduarda Mansilla, Ramon Lista, and Florence Dixie, reflect on indigenous sexual practices, analyze the advisability and effects of interracial sex, and use the language of desire to narrate encounters with indigenous peoples as they try to scientifically pinpoint Argentina's racial identity and future potential"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2020) Subject Ethnology -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century Indigenous peoples -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century Race discrimination -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century Sex discrimination -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century Sex -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century White nationalism -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American Ethnology. Indigenous peoples. Race discrimination. Race relations. Sex. Sex discrimination. White nationalism. SUBJECT Argentina -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject Argentina. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019027142 ISBN 9780826522733 0826522734

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