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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
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Sensual Interventions
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The Homosocial Passions
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Enlightening Machismo
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Vanishing Identities
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"In this work, Domínguez-Ruvalcaba has achieved depth and scope by analyzing entire periods of Mexican nationalism through the lens of male body representations. The principal objective of this magnificent work is to explain clearly and insightfully how male body representations evolve and deconstruct themselves throughout the period from the 1870s to the present in Mexico, and to demonstrate their relationship to nationhood and Mexican modernity. This work opens a new era in the study of Mexican visual arts in relation to the formation and deformation of masculinity through male transvestism from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present." - Emilio Bejel, Professor of Spanish, University of California at Davis, and author of Gay Cuban Nation "This text nourishes bibliographies on masculinity and amply illustrates the field of Mexican modernity through the representation of masculine bodies. Domínguez-Ruvalcaba shows the aporias of this representation and the distinction between seeing and reading. He makes the compelling assertion that the representation of masculinity as sensuality is a way of normalizing the coloniality of power, and a medium for transforming being into performance. This is a timely contribution that will be valuable in both undergraduate and graduate courses." - Ileana Rodríguez, Humanities Distinguished Professor of Literatures and Cultures of Latin America, Ohio State University
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity
Book Subtitle: From Sensuality to Bloodshed
Authors: Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230608894
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60044-7Published: 08 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36998-0Published: 19 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60889-4Published: 29 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 182
Topics: Latin American Culture, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Cultural History, Gender Studies