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Ashley E. Kerr, “Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)” (Vanderbilt UP, 2020) (2020)

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Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910) (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020) argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality. The writers studied here (an eclectic group of scientists, anthropologists, and novelists, including Estanislao Zeballos, Lucio and Eduarda Mansilla, Ramón 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. Ashley E. Kerr is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Idaho.

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Authors & Contributors
Staum, Martin S.
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth
Ballestero, Diego A.
Cornejo, Jorge N.
Gonaver, Wendy
Goodchild, Lester F.
Journals
American Quarterly
Canadian Journal of History
Environment and History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
History of Education Quarterly
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
Vanderbilt University Press
University of Pittsburgh
Yale University
College of William and Mary
Harvard University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Science and race
Science and gender
Sex
Sexuality
Darwinism
Race
People
Dixie, Florence
Mansilla de García, Eduarda
Mansilla, Lucio
Zeballos, Estanislao Sever
Lista, Ramón
Comte, Auguste
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Argentina
France
Australia
Germany
Russia
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