2005- Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin American History, co-edited with Sarah Chambers and Lara Putnam (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
2000- In Defense of Honor: Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000).
2004- “Interracial Courtship in the Rio de Janeiro Courts, 1918-1940,” in Race and Nation in Modern Latin America, ed. Nancy Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).
2001- “The History of Gender in Latin American Historiography,” keynote essay, Hispanic American Historical Review, 81, no. 3-4 (2001): 451-492.
2000- “O surgimento do Mangue: Raça, nação, e as políticas de controle da prostituição no Río de Janeiro, 1850-1942,” Revista Tempo, 5, no. 1 (julho de 2000): 43-64.
1997- "Getting into Trouble: Dishonest Women, Modern Girls and Women-Men in the Conceptual Language of Vida Policial, 1925-1927," in History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates, Contestations, ed. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham et. al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).