Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Daniel Balderston; Donna Guy

Published by New York University Press 1997

Sex and Sexuality in Latin America

An Interdisciplinary Reader

Daniel Balderston and Donna Guy

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814723333.001.0001

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About this book

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 of Latin American gender and sexuality. Covering topics ranging from transvestism to the world of tango, and countries as diverse as Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, this volume takes an accessible, dynamic, and interdisciplinary approach to a highly theoretical topic.
"Opens up new conceptual horizons for exploring gender and sexuality. . . . In stimulating readers to think 'outside the box' of established academic notions of sexuality and gender, Sex and Sexuality in Latin America illustrates the sometimes mind-boggling mission of iconoclastic scholarship. The well-written essays are thought-provoking analyses on the cutting edge of gender scholarship."
Latin American Research Review, vol. 36, no. 3, 2001

Author / Editor information

Balderston Daniel :

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

Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. President of the Congress on Latin American History,
Donna J. Guy is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and author of Sex and

Reviews

Opens up new conceptual horizons for exploring gender and sexuality. . . . In stimulating readers to think 'outside the box' of established academic notions of sexuality and gender, Sex and Sexuality in Latin America illustrates the sometimes mind-boggling mission of iconoclastic scholarship. The well-written essays are thought-provoking analyses on the cutting edge of gender scholarship.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part one. Questioning identities
2. Guto’s performance: notes on the transvestism of everyday life Roger N. Lancaster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3. Crossing the border with chabela Vargas: a Chicana femme's tribute Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. Gender without limits: transvestism and subjectivity in el lugar sin limites Ben Sifuentes Jduregui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Part two. Policing sexuality
5. Conflicting penile codes: modern masculinity and sodomy in the Brazilian military, 1860-1916 Peter Beattie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
6. The birth of Mangue: race, nation, and the politics of prostitution in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1942 Sueann Caulfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
7. Modernismo and homophobia: Darío and Rodó Oscar Montero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
8. Los jotos: contested visions of homosexuality in modern Mexico Rob Buffington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
9. Homosexualities in the tropic of revolution Jose Quiroga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part three. Family values
10. Mothers alive and dead multiple concepts of mothering in Buenos Aires Donna J. Guy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
11. Garzonas y feministas in Cuban women's writing ofthe 1920s: la vida manda by ofelia rodríguez acosta Nina Menendez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
12. Excluded middle?: bisexuality in Doha herlinda y su hijo Daniel Balderston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
13. Multiple masculinities: the worlds of tango and football in Argentina Eduardo P. Archetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Part four. Redefinitions
14. Gender, dress, and market: the commerce of citizenship in Latin America Francine Masiello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
15. "What a tangled web!": masculinity, abjection, and the foundations o f puerto rican literature in the united states Arnaldo Cruz-Malave Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
16. From Sappho to baffo: diverting the sexual in alejandra pizarnik Sylvia Molloy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
17. Bibliography of gender and sexuality studies on Latin America Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: February 1, 1997
ISBN: 9780814723333