Tag: Latin America

CFP: Histories of Magic and Sexuality

By Mackenzie Cooley March 9, 2016 CFP 0 comments

How have perceptions of magic shaped sexuality, love, and reproduction?

“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano

By notcheseditor November 3, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Mir Yarfitz In the 1950s, “youth” became a new consumer category of central importance to the worldwide social, cultural, and political transformations of the following decades. In The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Perón to Videla (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), Valeria […]

Seduction and Power in Revolutionary Bolivia

By notcheseditor October 15, 2015 Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

Elena McGrath Five years after the 1952 revolution gave all Bolivians the right to vote, removed forced labor requirements for indigenous communities, and nationalized Bolivia’s mineral wealth, a mechanic in Bolivia’s state-owned mining company, the Bolivian Mining Corporation (Corporación Minera de Bolivia, or COMIBOL) wrote to the municipal courts. He […]

CFP: Histories of Sexuality in Latin America

By notcheseditor June 13, 2015 CFP 0 comments

How do sex and sexuality play a role in Latin American histories? In what ways is sexuality a significant organizing principle in the study of Latin American societies? What does sexuality mean in Latin American cultures across time and space? NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality invites submissions on […]

Health, Reproduction, and Sex: Growing a Field for Latin Americanists

By notcheseditor May 14, 2015 Dispatches, Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

Raúl Necochea and Cassia Roth It was our good fortune to share a table with three terrific scholars at the 2015 American Historical Association (AHA) conference, all working in the borderlands of reproduction, sexuality, health, and Latin American/Caribbean politics. Our panel, “The Politics of Reproduction in the Americas: Bolivia, Jamaica, and […]

The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America

By notcheseditor October 2, 2014 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 0 comments

Bryan Pitts “We aren’t hiding anymore – it’s our rights that we’re fighting for,” exclaimed a participant at a July 2010 pro-same-sex marriage demonstration in Buenos Aires. A few weeks later the Argentine Senate voted to modify the country’s Civil Code to permit same-sex marriage. The landmark vote represented perhaps the […]