Gender and Sexuality

A Special Issue of Hispanic American Historical Review

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Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph

Duke University Press

Due/Published November 2001, 350 pages, paper

ISBN 0822364980

These essays explore and demonstrate the vital work in gender and sexuality by leading historians of Latin America. The collection offers look at the current state of gender and sexuality studies in Latin American scholarship--as well as the dynamic potential of the discipline's future.

Sueann Caulfield begins with an historiographical analysis of the field. Then a forum of four younger scholars--Heidi Tinsman, Karin Rosemblatt, Elizabeth Hutchinson, and Thomas Klubock--examines the construction of gender and power in a variety of politically contested arenas, including agrarian reform, welfarism, and leftist activism. Focusing on twentieth-century Chile, the collection also includes essays by Pablo Piccato and Christina Rivera that analyze gender dynamics, class relations, and sexual violence in the context of the medical-legal state that emerged in early-twentieth-century Mexico. The issue concludes with Martin Nesvig's essay, which explores the terrain of Latin American homosexuality and bisexuality.

Contributors. Sueann Caulfield, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Gilbert M. Joseph, Thomas J. Klubock, Martin Nesvig, Pablo Piccato, Cristina Rivera Garza, Karin Rosemblatt, Heidi Tinsman

Contents

Introduction--Gilbert M. Joseph
Historiographical Essay--Sueann Caulfield
Writing the History of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Chile--Thomas Klubock
Good Wives and Unfaithful Men: Gender Negotiations and Sexual Conflict in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1964Đ1973--Heidi Tinsman
Charity, Rights, and Entitlement in Popular-Front Chile--Karin Rosemblatt
From La Mujer Esclava to La Mujer Lim—n: Anarchism and the Politics of Sexuality in Chile, 1900Đ1927--Elizabeth Hutchison
She Neither Respected Nor Obeyed Anyone: Inmates and Psychiatrists Debate Gender and Class at the General Insane Asylum La Casta–eda, Mexico, 1910-1930--Cristina Rivera Garza
El Chalequero or the Mexican Jack the Ripper: The Meanings of Sexual Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City--Pablo Piccato
The Complicated Terrain of Latin American Homosexuality--Martin Nesvig