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Masculinity and sexuality in modern Mexico / edited by Víctor M. Macías-González and Anne Rubenstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Diálogos series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masculinity--Mexico--History.
- Masculinity.
- Men--Mexico--Identity.
- Men.
- Machismo--Mexico.
- Machismo.
- Sex--Mexico--History.
- Sex.
- Sex role--Mexico--History.
- Sex role.
- Men--Mexico--Social life and customs.
- Mexico--Civilization.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613702975
- 9781280792588
- 1280792582
- 9780826329066
- 0826329063
- OCLC:
- 798208368
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