Centenary of the Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico,1901
On November 17, 1901, Mexico City police raided a private party and arrested 41 men, half of whom were dressed as women. Clandestine transvestite balls were not unheard of at this time, and a raid would not normally gain national attention. However, Mexican cultural trends in literature, art, the sciences, and in journalism were inciting an atmosphere of sexual curiosity that was in search of the right turn of events to ignite a discursive explosion and focus interest on what was not a new phenomenon, but what was about to become a new concept: homosexuality. The editors treat the nefarious ball as a cultural event in itself and have assemble…
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Weitere Autoren: McCaughan, E. (Hrsg.) / Nasser, M. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-6049-8
- EAN: 9781403960498
- Produktnummer: 1500049
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 311 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B16.6 cm x D1.8 cm 367 g
- Auflage: 2003
- Gewicht: 367
Über den Autor
Robert McKee Irwin is Chair of the Graduate Group in Cultural Studies and Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of California, Davis, USA.
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