Mexican Sexually Diverse Masculinities
In Mexico, homoeroticism cannot be considered a marginalized invisible reality, since it has played a decisive role in the construction of the State and society by providing a very useful comparative parameter for the national patriarchy and machismo that were consolidated at the beginning of the 20th century. Therefore, in this volume, the conditions assigned to the different sexually diverse expressions (social type, sexual community, or personal destiny) are weighed, and the causes of homophobia, misogyny, racism, and classism are assessed.
The panorama is far from limited, as there is great textual, social, artistic, and cultural richness regarding "jotismos." The homoeroticisms analyzed here are subjected to personal, public, and communal scrutiny that separates the individual, who in turn tries to cloak themselves in a kind of machismo or traits considered masculine that actually seem to reveal what one wants to erase in the personality (that is, any "feminine" or "feminizing" trait) because it diminishes the person in a line of thought roughly expressed as: one may be very "joto," but one is also very "macho." In this sense, homoeroticisms would have stripped themselves of their critical power and become great allies of a patriarchal, machista, and consumerist worldview.
Through a review analyzing the most relevant narrative, theatrical, and autobiographical works of 20th and 21st-century Mexican literature, the importance of this privileged textual repository for the study of masculinities is confirmed. At the same time, other phenomena are examined—such as emotional relationships between men unconcerned with identity labels, legislation in favor of sexual differences, and resilience in times of health emergencies—that allow appreciation of these cultural marks of dissent and integration.
Contributors to the volume include César Cañedo, Guillermo M. Corral, Raúl García, Humberto Guerra, Mauricio List, Juan Martínez Gil, Roberto Mendoza, Hugo Salcedo, and Luis Martín Ulloa.
