Mema's house is in the poor quarter Nezahualcoyotl, a crowded urban
space on the outskirts of Mexico City where people survive with the
help of family, neighbours, and friends. This house is a sanctuary
for a group of young homosexual men who meet to chat, flirt, listen
to music, and smoke marijuana. Among the group are sex workers and
transvestites with high heels, short skirts, heavy make-up, and
voluminous hairstyles; and their partners, young, bisexual men,
wearing T-shirts and worn jeans, short hair, and maybe a moustache.
Mema, an AIDS educator and the leader of this gang of homosexual
men, invited Annick Prieur, a European sociologist, to meet the
community and conduct her fieldwork at his house. Prieur lived
there for six months between 1988 and 1991, and she has kept in
touch for more than eight years. As Prieur follows the
transvestites in their daily activities - at their work as
prostitutes or as hairdressers, at night having fun in the streets
and in discos, on visits with their families and even in prisons, a
story unfolds of love, violence, and deceit. Prieur analyzes the
complicated relations between the effeminate homosexuals, most of
them transvestites, and their partners, the masculine-looking
bisexual men, asking why these particular gender constructions
exist in the Mexican working classes, and how they can be so
widespread in a male-dominated society, the very society from which
the term "machismo" stems. Weaving empirical research with theory,
Prieur presents new analytical angles on several concepts: family,
class, domination, the role of the body, and the production of
differences among men.
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