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Title Machos, mistresses, madonnas : contesting the power of Latin American gender imagery / edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen.

Publication Info. London : New York : Verso, 1996.

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 Moore Stacks  HQ1075.5.L29 M33 1996  1996    Available  ---
Description viii, 272 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Critical studies in Latin American and Iberian cultures
Critical studies in Latin American and Iberian cultures.
Note "This book originated from a symposium on 'The Power of Latin American Gender Imagery' held at the 48th International Congress of Americanists in Stockholm/Uppsala in July 1994"--P. vii.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Playing styles and masculine virtues in Argtentine football / Eduardo P. Archetti -- Pacharacas, putas and chicas de su casa: labelling, femininity and men's sexual selves in Lima, Peru / Lorraine Nencel -- Domination and desire: male homosexuality and the construction of masculinity in Mexico / Annick Prieur -- Masculinity and the political among Dominicans: 'the Dominican tiger' / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- Gendering of ethnicity in the Ecuadorian Andes: native women's self-fashioning in the urban marketplace / Mary M. Crain -- Power of gender discourses in a multi-ethnic community in rural Argentina / Kristi Anne Stølen -- Power and self-identity: the beekeepers of Ayuquila / Magdalena Villareal -- Production of gendered imagery: the concheros of Mexico / Susanna Rostas -- Power, value and the ambiguous meanings of gender / Marit Melhuus.
Subject Gender identity -- Latin America -- Congresses.
Gender identity.
Latin America.
Sex role -- Latin America -- Congresses.
Sex role.
Gender identity.
Gender roles.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Melhuus, Marit.
Stølen, Kristi Anne.
ISBN 1859841600 paperback
1859848052