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  title info:
    title: Mema's house, Mexico City
    sub title: on transvestites, queens, and machos
  title info:
    title: Iscenesettelser av kjønn. English
  name:
    name part: Prieur, Annick
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: nor
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Mema's house is in the poor barrio Nezahualcoyotl, a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City. This house is a sanctuary for a group of young, homosexual men who meet to do what they can't do openly at home. They chat, flirt, listen to music, and smoke marijuana. Among the group are sex workers and transvestites with high heels, short skirts, heavy makeup, and voluminous hairstyles; and their partners, young, bisexual men, wearing T-shirts and worn jeans, short hair, and maybe a mustache."--BOOK JACKET. "Mema, an AIDS educator and the leader of this gang of homosexual men, invited sociologist Annick Prieur to meet the community and to conduct her fieldwork at his house. As Prieur follows Mema's group in their daily activities - at their work as prostitutes or as hairdressers, a night having fun in the streets and in discos - on visits with their families and even in prisons, a fascinating story unfolds of love, violence, and deceit. She analyzes the complicated relations between the effeminate homosexuals, most of them transvestites, and their partners, the masculine-looking bisexual men, ultimately asking why these particular gender constructions exist in the Mexican working classes and how they can be so widespread in a male-dominated society - the very society from which the term machismo stems. Expertly weaving empirical research with theory, Prieur presents new analytical angles on a number of central debates in sociology: family, class, domination, the role of the body, and the production of differences among men."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Introduction: The First Night ix -- 1 The Setting and the Approach 1 -- 2 Everyday Life of a Jota 41 -- 3 Little Boys in Mother's Wardrobe: On the Origins of Homosexuality and Effeminacy 104 -- 4 Stealing Femininity: On Bodily and Symbolic Constructions 140 -- 5 Machos and Mayates: Masculinity and Bisexuality 179 -- 6 On Love, Domination, and Penetration 234.
  note: Annick Prieur.
  note: Revised translation of: author's thesis (doctoral--University of Oslo, 1994).
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: Cross-dressers
    geographic: Mexico
    geographic: Netzahualcóyotl
  subject:
    topic: Gay culture
    geographic: Mexico
    geographic: Netzahualcóyotl
  subject:
    topic: Travestis
    geographic: Mexique
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Cross-dressers
  subject:
    topic: Transvestitismus
  subject:
    geographic: Mexiko
  subject:
    topic: Transvestitisme
  subject:
    topic: Homoseksuelen
  subject:
    topic: Biseksualiteit
  subject:
    topic: Macho
  classification: HQ77 .P6813 1998
  classification: 306.77
  classification: 71.67
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 970611
    record change date: 20230323162521.7
    record identifier: in00001386631
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng