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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779252403321
• 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; 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.