Sex and Sexuality in Latin America : : An Interdisciplinary Reader /

Sex and Sexuality in Latin America : : An Interdisciplinary Reader / / Daniel Balderston, Donna Guy.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Balderston, Daniel,
Guy, Donna,
MitwirkendeR:
Archetti, Eduardo P.,
Balderston, Daniel,
Beattie, Peter,
Buffington, Rob,
Caulfield, Sueann,
Cruz-Malave, Arnaldo,
Guy, Donna J.,
Lancaster, Roger N.,
Masiello, Francine,
Menendez, Nina,
Molloy, Sylvia,
Montero, Oscar,
Quiroga, Jose,
Sifuentes Jduregui, Ben,
Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]
©1997
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • 8. Los jotos: contested visions of homosexuality in modern Mexico
  • 9. 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 ofthe 1920s: la vida manda by ofelia rodríguez acosta
  • 12. Excluded middle?: bisexuality in Doha 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
  • 15. "What a tangled web!": masculinity, abjection, and the foundations o f puerto rican literature in the united states
  • 16. From Sappho to baffo: diverting the sexual in alejandra pizarnik
  • 17. Bibliography of gender and sexuality studies on Latin America
  • Contributors
  • Index

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