| Titre | El miedo a lo femenino | |
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| Auteur | Antoine Rodríguez | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 4, 2011 Stéréotypes, tabous, mythes | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Mexique: mythes, tabous, stéréotypes au carrefour des identités |
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| Résumé anglais |
The discursive and iconographic figure of the effeminate homosexual, or rather socially stigmatized as lagartijos, jotos, maricones, invertidos, and some other tags gradually emerged in Mexico in the nineteenth century and spread widely in the period of Porfirio Diaz (1876 - 1910) and then in post-revolutionary times. Institutional discourse, carried by the official media, street flyers, artistic manifestos, criminological and medical literature or painting, by combining patriotic belief and fear of a dangerous socio-generic disorder, will “unleash” a stereotypical representation of homosexuals. Above is a result of a complex theoretical network initiated in Europe bourgeoisie and hygienist, the figure of homosexuals in Mexico becomes the receptacle grotesque of a decadence or degeneration against whom is intended reinforce generic assignments questioned by the emerging movements of female emancipation, overthrow the liberal government of PorfirioDiaz and, finally, impose the macho mexicano as a patriotic model post-revolutionary. Based on the representations of effeminate homosexual that exists in Europe, I'm interested to see how, in some way, they feed the Mexican configurations, which in turn produce specific national prototypes. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/1946 |
