Book description
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. In essays that range
from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors
write about file clerks and movie stars, wealthy world travelers and
ordinary people whose adventures were confined to a bar in the middle
of town. The Mexicans we meet in these essays lived out their
identities through extraordinary events--committing terrible crimes,
writing world-famous songs, and ruling the nation--but also in
everyday activities like falling in love, raising families, getting
dressed, and going to the movies. Thus, these essays in the history of
masculinity connect the major topics of Mexican political history
since 1880 to the history of daily life.
Part of the Diálogos Series of Latin American Studies
Vi ctor M. Maci as-Gonza lez is associate professor
in the History Department and the Department of Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, where he
directs the Institute for Latina/o and Latin American Studies.
Anne Rubenstein is associate professor of history at
York University in Toronto.
