- Faculty , Women's and Gender Studies
Research Interests
- Latin American History
Selected Publications
"Defining a 'National Type:' Brazilian Beauty Contests in the 1920s." Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 16:1 (2005).
Modernização da Desigualdade: Reconstrução de Genero no Brasil, 1914-1940. São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 1999.
Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
"Brazilian Civil Code, 1916." In Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, edited by Barbara A. Tenenbaum. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.
"Introduction to Latin American Civilizations" (Course Syllabus), Radical History Review 61 (Winter 1995).