Mema's house, Mexico City : on transvestites, queens, and machos /

Mema's house, Mexico City : on transvestites, queens, and machos /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Prieur, Annick.
Uniform title:	Iscenesettelser av kjønn. English
Imprint:	Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Description:	xv, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Transvestites -- Mexico -- Mexico City. Cross-dressers. Mexico -- Mexico City.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2919026

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ISBN:	0226682560 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226682579 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287) and index. Rev. translation of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Oslo, 1994).

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: The First Night
1. The Setting and the Approach
2. Everyday Life of a Jota
3. Little Boys in Mother's Wardrobe: On the Origins of Homosexuality and Effeminacy
4. Stealing Femininity: On Bodily and Symbolic Constructions
5. Machos and Mayates: Masculinity and Bisexuality
6. On Love, Domination, and Penetration
Concluding Notes
Bibliography
Index