With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial
Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the
stereotype associating Mexican men with machismo--defined as
excessive virility that is accompanied by bravado and explosions of
violence. While scholars studying men's gender identities in the
colonial period have used Inquisition documents to explore their
subject, these documents are inherently limiting given that the men
described in them were considered to be criminals or otherwise
marginal. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century resources, too, provide
a limited perspective on machismo in the colonial period. The
Origins of Macho addresses this deficiency by basing its study of
colonial Mexican masculinity on the experiences of mainstream men.
Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking
at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. In doing so she establishes an important
foundation for gender studies in Mexico and Latin America and makes
a significant contribution to the larger field of masculinity
studies.
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