ISBN:
9780814712894
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (298 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Sex and Sexuality in Latin America : An Interdisciplinary Reader
DDC:
306.7098
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the dominant Anglo-European model of gender. To this end, the essays in the collection focus on the uncertain and contingent nature of sexual identity. Organized around three central themes--control and repression; the politics and culture of resistance; and sexual transgression as affirm
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; Part One Questioning Identities; 2 Guto's Performance: Notes on the Transvestism of Everyday Life; 3 Crossing the Border with Chabela Vargas: A Chicana Femme's Tribute; 4 Gender without Limits: Transvestism and Subjectivity in El lugar sin limites; Part Two Policing Sexuality; 5 Conflicting Penile Codes: Modern Masculinity and Sodomy in the Brazilian Military, 1860-1916; 6 The Birth of Mangue: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Prostitution in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1942; 7 Modernismo and Homophobia: Darío and Rodó
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Los Jotos: Contested Visions of Homosexuality in Modern Mexico9 Homosexualities in the Tropic of Revolution; Part Three Family Values; 10 Mothers Alive and Dead: Multiple Concepts of Mothering in Buenos Aires; 11 Garzonas y Feministas in Cuban Women's Writing of the 1920s: La vida manda by Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta; 12 Excluded Middle?: Bisexuality in Doña Herlinda y su hijo; 13 Multiple Masculinities: The Worlds of Tango and Football in Argentina; Part Four Redefinitions; 14 Gender, Dress, and Market: The Commerce of Citizenship in Latin America
Description / Table of Contents:
15 "What a Tangled Web!": Masculinity, Abjection, and the Foundations of Puerto Rican Literature in the United States16 From Sappho to Baffo: Diverting the Sexual in Alejandra Pizarnik; 17 Bibliography of Gender and Sexuality Studies on Latin America; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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