Border Bodies

Bernadine Marie Hernandez is assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico.

"Border Bodies is an expansive borderlands study that ties together histories of racialized sexuality and sexual capital with the formations of Mexican gender and race in the US. Informed by history, Hernandez effectively illustrates why scholars must consider the racial and sexual political economy of nineteenth-century Latinxs (inclusive of Californixs, Tejanxs, and Hispanxs) in studying the larger trajectory of capitalism."--American Historical Review "A wonderful addition for graduate courses and for scholars of the borderlands, labor history, gender and sexuality studies, and Chicanx/Latinx studies. Its influence will undoubtedly grow in the years to come."--Journal of Arizona History "Absorbing. . . . While there are many strengths to Border Bodies, the most noteworthy is how teachable each chapter is for upper-division and graduate students."--Journal of the Civil War Era "An important study . . . . Border Bodies effectively demonstrates the dehumanizing forces of sexual capital on large populations of women who are often erased from history . . . . Highly recommended."--CHOICE "An impressive and meticulous archival work. . . .In five chapters, [Hernandez] immerses us in the heart of her poignant and necessary investigation through moments of sexual and gender violence in the U.S. borderlands between 1834 and 1916."--Journal of Borderlands Studies "Bernadine Hernandez offers a rich, complex history of the Southwestern borderlands that is in deep conversation with Marxist and feminist theorists. . . . [A] timely contribution that points the way toward new approaches to centering marginalized groups in the histories of contested spaces."--Journal of African American History "This important, nuanced volume shines a light on the importance of Mexicana, Nuevomexicana, Californiana, and Tejana women in the evolution of the U.S. (south)west."--Ms. Magazine