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Mexican Masculinities

Robert McKee Irwin

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The rhetoric of "Mexicanness" makes constant use of images of masculinity, though it does so in shifting and often contradictory ways. Robert McKee Irwin's work follows these shifts from the male homosocial bonding that was central to notions of national integration in the nineteenth century, to questioning of gender norms stirred by science and scandals at the turn of the century, to the virulent reaction against gender chaos after the Mexican revolution, to the association of Mexicanness with machismo and homophobia in the literature of the 1940s and 1950s -- even as male homosexuality was established as an integral part of national culture. As the first historical study of how masculinity and, particularly, homosexuality were understood in Mexico in the national era, this book not only provides "queer readings" of major canonical texts of the period but also uncovers a variety of unknown texts from queer Mexican history.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press

Release: March 11, 2003

ISBN: 0816640718

ISBN 13: 9780816640713

Mexican Masculinities

Robert McKee Irwin

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The rhetoric of "Mexicanness" makes constant use of images of masculinity, though it does so in shifting and often contradictory ways. Robert McKee Irwin's work follows these shifts from the male homosocial bonding that was central to notions of national integration in the nineteenth century, to questioning of gender norms stirred by science and scandals at the turn of the century, to the virulent reaction against gender chaos after the Mexican revolution, to the association of Mexicanness with machismo and homophobia in the literature of the 1940s and 1950s -- even as male homosexuality was established as an integral part of national culture. As the first historical study of how masculinity and, particularly, homosexuality were understood in Mexico in the national era, this book not only provides "queer readings" of major canonical texts of the period but also uncovers a variety of unknown texts from queer Mexican history.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press

Release: March 11, 2003

ISBN: 0816640718

ISBN 13: 9780816640713

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