Mucho macho : seduction, desire, and the homoerotic lives of Latin men / / Chris Girman

• Autore: Girman Chris.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (670 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/62/098
• Soggetto topico: Male homosexuality - Latin America; Machismo - Latin America; Masculinity - Latin America; Hispanic American gay men
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Conclusion ; Chapter 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; Conclusion ; Chapter 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]; Conclusion ; Chapter 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Mucho macho
• ISBN: 1-56023-503-9; 1-315-80160-4; 1-317-76603-2; 1-317-76604-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790807003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Haworth gay & lesbian studies.