Intersecting tango : cultural geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930 / Adriana J. Bergero ; translated by Richard Young.
| Author/creator |
Bergero, Adriana J., 1953- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2008. |
| Description | x, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
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| Series | Illuminations Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.) ^A594020 |
| Contents | The jockey club -- Palaces and residences -- Parks, plazas, and Calle Florida -- Passages, public spaces, and cultural crossings -- Theaters and cafés -- Conventillos -- Paradigms and deviations -- Work, the body, and dislocations of identity -- Chains of desire -- Palaces of temptation -- Beauties, femmes fatales, tramps, vamps, and vampires -- Rags and rejects -- Reaffirming old paradigms -- New alliances, old causes -- Putting out fires -- Fractured identities and economic dislocation -- The garçonières and the sex of power -- In-between identities, peripheral sexualities -- The weak, the violent, and the tearful -- Barrios and melodramas : of love and consternation |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-456) and index. |
| Language | Translated from the Spanish. |
| LCCN | 2007049543 |
| ISBN | 9780822943181 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822943182 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822959854 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822959852 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | F 3001.3 .B543 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |