Mucho Macho (Paperback)

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 Echeverrías “El Matadero” and Reinaldo Arenass “Comienza el Desfile” Introduction Los Hermanos Sodomitas: Masculinity and [Homo]eroticism in Echeverrías “El Matadero” La Busqueda del Huerfano: Disenchantment and [Homo]eroticism in Arenass “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