The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico

by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Overview

Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826360403
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	06/15/2019
Series:	Di logos Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera is a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the author of Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856 and To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla (UNM Press), and she is the coeditor of Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico (UNM Press) and The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America (UNM Press).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

Chapter One. Many Masculinities
Chapter Two. Becoming a Man
Chapter Three. Sexuality
Chapter Four. Men and Work
Chapter Five. Men and Their World
Chapter Six. Men and Men
Chapter Seven. The Seeds of Macho

Appendix. Insults by Category
Glossary of Insults
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

This engaging, exhaustively researched book examines the colonial origins of a much-studied and highly stereotyped phenomenon: Mexican machismo. However, the book is much more than a search for the roots of that axiomatically assertive, violent ideology. Instead, the author complicates easy stereotypes of Mexican masculinity, finding not only multiple colonial masculinities but a general difference between colonial norms and the machismo that emerged in the nineteenth and (especially) twentieth centuries.—Jacqueline Holler, Histoire sociale

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera has written a brilliant book on a novel topic. . . . The committee found her command of primary sources masterful and her writing beautiful and accessible.—Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera has written a brilliant book on a novel topic. . . . The committee found her command of primary sources masterful and her writing beautiful and accessible.—Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Lipsett-Rivera . . . enriches the study of gender in Spanish America.
—Choice

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