LEADER 04561oam 2200745I 450 001 9910453213603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-56023-503-9 010 $a1-315-80160-4 010 $a1-317-76603-2 010 $a1-317-76604-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315801605 035 $a(CKB)2550000001171433 035 $a(EBL)1581998 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001082048 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12391531 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001082048 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11091051 035 $a(PQKB)11700758 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1581998 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1581998 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10823879 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL552833 035 $a(OCoLC)866447766 035 $a(OCoLC)868927455 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001171433 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMucho macho $eseduction, desire, and the homoerotic lives of Latin men /$fChris Girman 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (670 p.) 225 1 $aHaworth gay & lesbian studies 225 0$aHaworth gay & lesbian studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-56023-502-0 311 $a1-306-21582-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; Conclusion 327 $aChapter 3: The Dominican Ti?guere and Hegemonic MasculinitiesIntroduction; El Ti?guere; Ti?gueres, Conejos, y Patos [Tigers, Rabbits, and Ducks]: Dominican Ti?guere 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 Sabastia?n; Phallocentrism and Desire; Pleasure; Desire As Identification; Cacherismo and Resistance/Alternative Discourses; Conclusion 327 $aChapter 5: Historical Representations of Same-Sex Desire in Esteban Echeverri?a's "El Matadero" and Reinaldo Arenas's "Comienza el Desfile"Introduction; Los Hermanos Sodomitas: Masculinity and [Homo]-eroticism in Echeverri?a'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]; Conclusion 327 $aChapter 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; Index 330 $a In one of the first books to examine machismo from the perspective of Latin American and Latino men, Chris Girman relies on a compelling combination of ethnographic research and personal experience to explain how macho men?men like the author himself?regulate and sustain same-sex erotic encounters. Girman incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin men into the book, infusing his writing with the unique perspective and vivid description that can only be related by someone who has lived 410 0$aHaworth gay & lesbian studies. 606 $aMale homosexuality$zLatin America 606 $aMachismo$zLatin America 606 $aMasculinity$zLatin America 606 $aHispanic American gays 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMale homosexuality 615 0$aMachismo 615 0$aMasculinity 615 0$aHispanic American gays. 676 $a306.76/62/098 700 $aGirman$b Chris.$0989161 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453213603321 996 $aMucho macho$92262213 997 $aUNINA