The Origins of Macho

Name: The Origins of Macho
Author: https://www.simonandschuster.net/authors/Sonya-Lipsett-Rivera/240997837
ISBN: 9780826360397

Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico

Part of Diálogos Series

By Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

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About The Book

Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

About The Author

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera is a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the author of Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856 and To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla (UNM Press), and she is the coeditor of Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico (UNM Press) and The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America (UNM Press).

Product Details

Publisher: UNM Press (June 15, 2019)
Length: 288 pages
ISBN13: 9780826360397

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Raves and Reviews

This terrific book is packed with detailed evidence and engaging analysis. Scholars and students of Latin American colonial history and gender theory will enjoy and benefit from it.--Nora E. Jaffary, Hispanic American Historical Review

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera has written a brilliant book on a novel topic. . . . The committee found her command of primary sources masterful and her writing beautiful and accessible.--Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Lipsett-Rivera . . . enriches the study of gender in Spanish America.--Choice