04615oam 2200769I 450 991080620280332120240402015919.01-56023-503-91-315-80160-41-317-76603-21-317-76604-010.4324/9781315801605(CKB)2550000001171433(EBL)1581998(SSID)ssj0001082048(PQKBManifestationID)12391531(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001082048(PQKBWorkID)11091051(PQKB)11700758(MiAaPQ)EBC1581998(Au-PeEL)EBL1581998(CaPaEBR)ebr10823879(CaONFJC)MIL552833(OCoLC)866447766(OCoLC)868927455(FINmELB)ELB136801(EXLCZ)99255000000117143320180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMucho macho seduction, desire, and the homoerotic lives of Latin men /Chris Girman1st ed.New York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (670 p.)Haworth gay & lesbian studiesHaworth gay & lesbian studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-56023-502-0 1-306-21582-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Is Latin America a Coherent Entity?; Marking My Position; Orientation; Some Caveats; Chapter 1: Machismo and Macho Performance; Male [Homo]Sexual Encounters in Latin America; Deconstructing Machismo; Uniting System and Self: From Habitus to Performance; Queer Performativity; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Head, Hands, Balls, and Ass; From a Theory of the Body to the Body As Theory; The Macho Body; Structural and Psychological Variables; ConclusionChapter 3: The Dominican Tíguere and Hegemonic MasculinitiesIntroduction; El Tíguere; Tígueres, Conejos, y Patos [Tigers, Rabbits, and Ducks]: Dominican Tíguere Sexuality; The Kid, the Cop, the Thief, and My Lover: Five Stories; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Desire in a Costa Rican Prison; Introduction; Junior; Hegemonic Masculinity in San Sabastián; Phallocentrism and Desire; Pleasure; Desire As Identification; Cacherismo and Resistance/Alternative Discourses; ConclusionChapter 5: Historical Representations of Same-Sex Desire in Esteban Echeverría's "El Matadero" and Reinaldo Arenas's "Comienza el Desfile"Introduction; Los Hermanos Sodomitas: Masculinity and [Homo]-eroticism in Echeverría's "El Matadero"; La Busqueda del Huerfano: Disenchantment and [Homo]-eroticism in Arenas's "Comienza el Desfile"; A Carnivalesque Critique; Chapter 6: Familiar, Familial Voices: Latino Men Speak Out; Introduction; Forming the Chicano Other; Speaking of Family; Masculine Assumption[s]; ConclusionChapter 7: Performing Matter[s]: Masculinities, the Male Body, and the Evocation of the [Not] RealIntroduction; Performative Writing; The Male Body; Emergent Ethnography and the Emergence of the Body; Toward a Performative Ethnography; Desde Santo Domingo hasta San Antonio: Putting My Own Body on the Line; Conclusion; The Final Act: Why It All Matters; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn one of the first books to examine machismo from the perspective of Latin American and Latino men, Chris Girman relies on a compelling combination of ethnographic research and personal experience to explain how macho men?men like the author himself?regulate and sustain same-sex erotic encounters. Girman incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin men into the book, infusing his writing with the unique perspective and vivid description that can only be related by someone who has livedHaworth gay & lesbian studies.Male homosexualityLatin AmericaMachismoLatin AmericaMasculinityLatin AmericaHispanic American gay menMale homosexualityMachismoMasculinityHispanic American gay men.306.76/62/098306.7662098Girman Chris.1660627MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806202803321Mucho macho4015968UNINA