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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452427803321

Titolo

Masculinity and sexuality in modern Mexico [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Víctor M. Macías-González and Anne Rubenstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-79258-2

9786613702975

0-8263-2906-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Diálogos series

Altri autori (Persone)

Macías-GonzálezVíctor M. <1970->

RubensteinAnne

Disciplina

155.3/320972

Soggetti

Masculinity - Mexico - History

Men - Mexico - Identity

Machismo - Mexico

Sex - Mexico - History

Sex role - Mexico - History

Men - Mexico - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

Mexico Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Masculinity and History in Modern Mexico; Part 1: Experiences; 1: The Bathhouse and Male Homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico; 2: Runaway Daughters: Women's Masculine Roles in Elopement Cases in Nineteenth-Century Mexico; 3: Dominance and Submission in Don Porfirio's Belle Époque: The Case of Luis and Piedad; 4: Meretricious Mexicali: Exalted Masculinities and the Crafting of Male Desire in a Border Red-Light District, 1908-1925; 5: Theaters of Masculinity: Moviegoing and Male Roles in Mexico Before 1960

Part 2: Representations6: Toward a Modern Sacrificial Economy: Violence Against Women and Male Subjectivity in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City; 7: Nationalizing the Bohemian: The Mythogenesis of



Agustín Lara; 8: The Gay Caballero: Machismo, Homosexuality, and the Nation in Golden Age Film; 9: Mariachis Machos and Charros Gays: Masculinities in Guadalajara; Conclusion: Mexican Masculinities; Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

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.