Quality researchuniquely enhanced by the author's personal
experience! In one of the first books to examine machismo from the
perspective of Latin American and Latino men, Chris Girman relies
on a compelling combination of ethnographic research and personal
experience to explain how macho menmen like the author
himselfregulate and sustain same-sex erotic encounters. Girman
incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin men
into the book, infusing his writing with the unique perspective and
vivid description that can only be related by someone who has lived
the research he writes about. While most of the literature on Latin
American male same-sex desire ignores the significance of the male
body in its investigation, this book shows why it is essential to
focus on the macho male body and re-evaluates so-called machismo to
forge a more nuanced description of Latin American masculinity.
Girman incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of
Latin American men into the book, infusing his writing with the
unique perspective and vivid descriptions that can only be related
by someone who has lived the research he writes about. With this
book, you'll become familiar with various kinds of Latin-American
homosexual behavior. Here's a glimpse at what you'll find inside:
Machismo, Practice Theorists, and Macho Performance summarizes
previous research on Latin American male [homo]sexuality and
defines the author's concept of machismo and Latin American
masculinity. Head, Hands, Balls, and Ass shows why focusing on the
body as living matter, rather than metaphor (as is done in so many
other books on sexuality), is the ideal point of entry into the
study of Latin American male [homo]sexuality and masculinity. This
chapter focuses on specific regions of the macho bodyhead, hands,
balls, and assto explain how machismo actually promotes, rather
than denies, sexual encounters between men. It also shows the
importance of the Latin American family as a variable that
structures the manner and frequency in which [homo]sexual
encounters occur. The Dominican Tiguere and Hegemonic Masculinities
takes a specific look at a very peculiar form of hegemonic
masculinityrelying on cunning more than strength to come out on
topthat is indigenous to the Dominican Republic. This chapter also
tells the stories of five of the author's sexual encounters in that
nation and discusses the tiguere style of masculine performance.
Desire in a Costa Rican Prison analyzes the ways in which desire,
power, and pleasure are constituted in the Latin American prison
environment. Historical Representations of Same-Sex Desire examines
two short storiesEl Matadero (Esteban Echeverria) and Comienza el
Desfile (Reinaldo Arenas), which highlight male eroticism as
important concepts within discourses on national identity. Both
stories conceptualize same-sex desire within specific historical
moments and demonstrate how male [homo]sexuality emerges and
represents itself not in contrast to the dominant discourse, but
within that discourse itself. Familiar, Familial Voices: Latino Men
Speak Out documents the voices of gay-identified Latino men living
in Central Texasmen who have come to love other Latin, Black, and
Anglo men in the context of very full lives. These men reveal their
conceptions of identity, race, performance, resistance, family,
pleasure, desire, masculinity, silence, and place. Performing
Matter[s]-Masculinity, the Male Body, and the Evocation of the
[non]real defies the notion that written representations can
capture the lived realities of
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