Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, 81

ISBN-13: 9780822364986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 428 str.

Gilbert M Joseph

Opis

With this special issue, the "Hispanic American Historical Review "explores the vital work in gender and sexuality by leading historians of Latin America. This collection offers readers a look at the current state of gender and sexuality studies areas of enormous growth and excitement in Latin American scholarship as well as the dynamic potential of the discipline s future.
Sueann Caulfield, one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin American gender studies, leads off with an insightful historiographical analysis of the field. Building on the foundation laid by Caulfield, a forum of four younger scholars Heidi Tinsman, Karin Rosemblatt, Elizabeth Hutchinson, and Thomas Klubock examines the construction of gender and power in a variety of politically contested arenas, including agrarian reform, welfarism, and leftist activism. Focusing on twentieth-century Chile, the collection also includes essays by Pablo Piccato and Christina Rivera that analyze gender dynamics, class relations, and sexual violence in the context of the medical-legal state that emerged in early-twentieth-century Mexico. The issue concludes with Martin Nesvig s essay, which negotiates the complex terrain of Latin American homosexuality and bisexuality.
This special issue will be a valuable resource for anyone teaching women s history, gender history, the history of sexuality, or any course on Latin American history with a focus on gender and sexuality.

"Contributors. "Sueann Caulfield, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Gilbert M. Joseph, Thomas J. Klubock, Martin Nesvig, Pablo Piccato, Cristina Rivera Garza, Karin Rosemblatt, Heidi Tinsman"