Mucho Macho : Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men

ISBN-13: 9781560235033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 436 str.

Chris Girman

Opis

This book explores the concepts--and illuminates the realities--of macho and machismo from the unique perspective of a gay sociologist who is also a sexual tourist. Unlike most of the scholars who have written about same-sex Latino male attraction, author/ethnographer Chris Girman has experienced it firsthand. In his travels in South, Central, and North America, Chris has had intimate encounters with dozens of Latino men. He shares both his research and his personal experience in Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men."

Spis treści

• Foreword (Robert A. Fernea)
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction
  
• Is Latin America a Coherent Entity?
  
• Marking My Position
  
• Orientation
  
• Some Caveats
  
• Chapter 1. Machismo and Macho Performance
  
• Male [Homo]Sexual Encounters in Latin America
  
• Deconstructing Machismo
  
• Uniting System and Self: From Habitus to Performance
  
• Queer Performativity
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 2. Head, Hands, Balls, and Ass
  
• From a Theory of the Body to the Body As Theory
  
• The Macho Body
  
• Structural and Psychological Variables
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 3. The Dominican Tíguere and Hegemonic Masculinities
  
• Introduction
  
• El Tíguere
  
• Tígueres, Conejos, y Patos [Tigers, Rabbits, and Ducks]: Dominican Tíguere Sexuality
  
• The Kid, the Cop, the Thief, and My Lover: Five Stories
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 4. Desire in a Costa Rican Prison
  
• Introduction
  
• Junior
  
• Hegemonic Masculinity in San Sabastián
  
• Phallocentrism and Desire
  
• Pleasure
  
• Desire As Identification
  
• Cacherismo and Resistance/Alternative Discourses
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 5. Historical Representations of Same-Sex Desire in Esteban Echeverría’s “El Matadero” and Reinaldo Arenas’s “Comienza el Desfile”
  
• Introduction
  
• Los Hermanos Sodomitas: Masculinity and [Homo]eroticism in Echeverría’s “El Matadero”
  
• La Busqueda del Huerfano: Disenchantment and [Homo]eroticism in Arenas’s “Comienza el Desfile”
  
• A Carnivalesque Critique
  
• Chapter 6. Familiar, Familial Voices: Latino Men Speak Out
  
• Introduction
  
• Forming the Chicano Other
  
• Speaking of Family
  
• Masculine Assumption[s]
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 7. Performing Matter[s]: Masculinities, the Male Body, and the Evocation of the [Not] Real
  
• Introduction
  
• Performative Writing
  
• The Male Body
  
• Emergent Ethnography and the Emergence of the Body
  
• Toward a Performative Ethnography
  
• Desde Santo Domingo hasta San Antonio: Putting My Own Body on the Line
  
• Conclusion
  
• The Final Act: Why It All Matters
  
• Notes
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  

O autorze

Chris Girman