The emerging field of psychosocial studies signifies a confluence ofdisciplines for whom the fantasies, repressions and cultural practices underlying national identity represents a crucial research focus.This book presents a psychosocial portrayal of Brazil?s arrival on the international stage in the economic boom of the run-up to its hosting of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. This formerPortuguese colony is a country of contradictions in need of a newimage, a nation that needs to be able to both love and sell itself intoday?s neo-liberal reality. It argues that a contemporaryrepresentation of Brazilian subjectivity is best enabled through aninterdisciplinary perspective. Five key themes ? to be explored in all their contradictions and ambivalence ? structure the book: fantasiesof the nation, xenophobia and denial, Brazilian cultural practice,transnational mobility, and gender, race and Brazilian identity.

La autora examina el rol de la mujer en los distintos discursosperonistas. Asimismo, sondea cómo esas disertaciones (ya de Perón, deEvita u otras mujeres que la acompañaron) configuran una imagen de lamujer que poco se diferencia de la concepción femenina de otrosdiscursos.