Vanderbilt University Press
Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)
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- Ashley Elizabeth Kerr
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Paperback
- 9780826522726
- 9.02 X 5.98 X 0.55 inches
- 0.79 pounds
- Literary Criticism > Caribbean & Latin American
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
The writers studied here (an eclectic group of scientists, anthropologists, and novelists, including Estanislao Zeballos, Lucio and Eduarda Mansilla, Ram�n 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.
Kerr's reach extends into history of science, literary studies, and history of anthropology, illuminating a scholarly time and place in which the lines betwixt were much blurrier, if they existed at all.
Author Bio
Ashley Kerr is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. As an undergraduate, Kerr spent a year living in Valparaíso, Chile. After graduation she taught English in Argentine Patagonia as a Fulbright English teaching assistant. She has also taught abroad in Valencia, Spain; Montevideo, Uruguay; and sailed around the Atlantic as a faculty member on Semester at Sea. At the University of Idaho, she teaches upper-level courses on Latin American culture, literature and film.
Her research focuses on race and gender in Argentina and Uruguay in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Her first book, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910), was named the 2020 Best Book by the Nineteenth Century Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association. She is currently working on a book looking at how the Buenos Aires zoo and its animals were used to shape society at the turn of the century.
Source: university of Idaho
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