Sex and Sexuality in Latin America

by Balderston, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780814712900
• ISBN10: 0814712908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Daniel Balderston
Donna J. Guy
Part One Questioning Identities
Guto's Performance: Notes on the Transvestism of Everyday Life	9	(24)
Roger N. Lancaster
Crossing the Border with Chabela Vargas: A Chicana Femme's Tribute	33	(11)
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Gender without Limits: Transvestism and Subjectivity in El lugar sin limites	44	(21)
Ben Sifuentes Jauregui
Part Two Policing Sexuality
Conflicting Penile Codes: Modern Masculinity and Sodomy in the Brazilian Military, 1860--1916	65	(21)
Peter Beattie
The Birth of Mangue: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Prostitution in Rio de Janeiro, 1850--1942	86	(15)
Sueann Caulfield
Modernismo and Homophobia: Dario and Rodo	101	(17)
Oscar Montero
Los Jotos: Contested Visions of Homosexuality in Modern Mexico	118	(15)
Rob Buffington
Homosexualities in the Tropic of Revolution	133	(22)
Jose Quiroga
Part Three Family Values
Mothers Alive and Dead: Multiple Concepts of Mothering in Buenos Aires	155	(19)
Donna J. Guy
Garzonas y Feministas in Cuban Women's Writing of the 1920s: La vida manda by Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta	174	(16)
Nina Menendez
Excluded Middle? Bisexuality in Dona Herlinda y su hijo	190	(10)
Daniel Balderston
Multiple Masculinities: The Worlds of Tango and Football in Argentina	200	(19)
Eduardo P. Archetti
Part Four Redefinitions
Gender, Dress, and Market: The Commerce of Citizenship in Latin America	219	(15)
Francine Masiello
``What a Tangled Web!'': Masculinity, Abjection, and the Foundations of Puerto Rican Literature in the United States	234	(16)
Arnaldo Cruz-Malave
From Sappho to Baffo: Diverting the Sexual in Alejandra Pizarnik	250	(9)
Sylvia Molloy
Bibliography of Gender and Sexuality Studies on Latin America	259	(19)
Daniel Balderston
Donna J. Guy
Contributors	278	(3)
Index	281