Machos Mistresses Madonnas

Challenging the stereotypical images of the dominating male and the subservient woman <i>Machos Mistresses Madonnas</i> addresses the variety of representations of gender in Latin American culture. Ranging across homosexuality prostitution football politics and ethnic relations this fascinating study analyzes the many potent images of gender from Maradona the child trickster of Argentinian football to La Malinche mistress of a conquistador and traitor to her nation.Based on social anthropological fieldwork the essays in <i>Machos Mistresses Madonnas</i> present rich ethnographic material drawn from a variety of locations in Latin America from Mexico City to the highlands of Ecuador. Paying particular attention to the cultural and symbolic meanings of gender research in the region together the essays reveal the central role of gender differences in the making of ethnic national political and economic divisions.