Sex and Sexuality in Latin America An Interdisciplinary Reader

Name: Sex and Sexuality in Latin America An Interdisciplinary Reader
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ISBN: 9780814712900

ISBN-10: 0814712908

ISBN-13: 9780814712900

Edition: 1997

Authors: Daniel Balderston, Donna Guy

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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 affirmation of marginalized identities--this intriguing collection will challenge and inform conceptions…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Chair of the Latin American Studies Association Task Force on Gay and Lesbian Issues,




Introduction




Guto's Performance: Notes on the Transvestism of Everyday Life




Crossing the Border with Chabela Vargas: A Chicana Femme's Tribute




Gender without Limits: Transvestism and Subjectivity in El lugar sin limites




Conflicting Penile Codes: Modern Masculinity and Sodomy in the Brazilian Military, 1860-1916




The Birth of Mangue: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Prostitution in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1942




Modernismo and Homophobia: Dario and Rodo




Los Jotos: Contested Visions of Homosexuality in Modern Mexico




Homosexualities in the Tropic of Revolution




Mothers Alive and Dead: Multiple Concepts of Mothering in Buenos Aires




Garzonas y Feministas in Cuban Women's Writing of the 1920s: La vida manda by Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta




Excluded Middle? Bisexuality in Dona Herlinda y su hijo




Multiple Masculinities: The Worlds of Tango and Football in Argentina




Gender, Dress, and Market: The Commerce of Citizenship in Latin America




"What a Tangled Web!": Masculinity, Abjection, and the Foundations of Puerto Rican Literature in the United States




From Sappho to Baffo: Diverting the Sexual in Alejandra Pizarnik




Bibliography of Gender and Sexuality Studies on Latin America



Contributors


Index