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Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
Daniel Balderston
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Description for Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
Paperback.
Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the dominant Anglo-European model of gender. To this end, the essays in the collection focus on the uncertain and contingent nature of sexual identity.
Organized around three central themes--control and repression; the politics and culture of resistance; and sexual transgression as affirmation of marginalized identities--this intriguing collection will challenge ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814712900
SKU
V9780814712900
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99-50
About Daniel Balderston
Chair of the Latin American Studies Association Task Force on Gay and Lesbian Issues, Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. President of the Congress on Latin American History, Donna J. Guy is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and author of Sex and
Reviews for Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
Opens up new conceptual horizons for exploring gender and sexuality. . . . In stimulating readers to think 'outside the box' of established academic notions of sexuality and gender, Sex and Sexuality in Latin America illustrates the sometimes mind-boggling mission of iconoclastic scholarship. The well-written essays are thought-provoking analyses on the cutting edge of gender scholarship.
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