The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico

by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826360408
• ISBN13: 9780826360403
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 9.0"