Masculinity and sexuality in modern Mexico

In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file clerks and movie s...

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Hauptverfasser: Macías-González, Víctor M., Rubenstein, Anne
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2012
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ISBN:9780826329059, 0826329055, 0826329063, 9780826329066
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  • Back Cover Index Contributors Conclusion: Mexican Masculinities 9: Mariachis Machos and Charros Gays: Masculinities in Guadalajara 8: The Gay Caballero: Machismo, Homosexuality, and the Nation in Golden Age Film 5: Theaters of Masculinity: Moviegoing and Male Roles in Mexico Before 1960 4: Meretricious Mexicali: Exalted Masculinities and the Crafting of Male Desire in a Border Red-Light District, 1908–1925 3: Dominance and Submission in Don Porfirio’s Belle Époque: The Case of Luis and Piedad 2: Runaway Daughters: Women’s Masculine Roles in Elopement Cases in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 1: The Bathhouse and Male Homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico Part 1: Experiences 7: Nationalizing the Bohemian: The Mythogenesis of Agustín Lara 6: Toward a Modern Sacrificial Economy: Violence Against Women and Male Subjectivity in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City Part 2: Representations Introduction: Masculinity and History in Modern Mexico Acknowledgments Illustrations Contents Title Page Copyright Front Cover
  • Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Masculinity and History in Modern Mexico -- Part 1 Experiences -- Chapter 1 The Bathhouse and Male Homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico -- Chapter 2 Runaway Daughters: Women's Masculine Roles in Elopement Cases in Nineteenth-Century Mexico -- Chapter 3 Dominance and Submission in Don Porfirio's Belle Époque: The Case of Luis and Piedad -- Chapter 4 Meretricious Mexicali: Exalted Masculinities and the Crafting of Male Desire in a Border Red-Light District, 1908-1925 -- Chapter 5 Theaters of Masculinity: Moviegoing and Male Roles in Mexico Before 1960 -- Part 2 Representations -- Chapter 6 Toward a Modern Sacrificial Economy: Violence Against Women and Male Subjectivity in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City -- Chapter 7 Nationalizing the Bohemian: The Mythogenesis of Agustín Lara -- Chapter 8 The Gay Caballero: Machismo, Homosexuality, and the Nation in Golden Age Film -- Chapter 9 Mariachis Machos and Charros Gays: Masculinities in Guadalajara -- Conclusion Mexican Masculinities -- Contributors -- Index