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Muy macho : Latino men confront their manhood / edited and with an introduction by Ray González.

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Muy macho : Latino men confront their manhood / edited and with an introduction by Ray González.
Publication
New York : Anchor Books, 1996.

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González, Ray.
Description
xx, 232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
From Homeboy to Latin Lover, America entertains a host of images about Latino men, yet all are variations on the Macho Man, virile and brash, full of passion and testosterone. From today's best-known as well as emerging Latino writers, poet and editor Ray Gonzalez has gathered sixteen personal essays on machismo and masculinity written especially for Muy Macho. The result is a rich and exciting collection of men talking about themselves, about their wives and lovers, about the fragile love between fathers and sons, and about the process by which men learn from and teach each other how to be men. Emotionally honest and powerfully written, the voices of Muy Macho break the "cult of silence" among Latino men which prevents our understanding the true nature of machismo.
Subject
  • Gender Identity
  • Men > psychology
  • Hispanic or Latino > psychology
  • Hispanic American men > Psychology
  • Machismo > United States
  • Sex role > United States
  • United States
  • United States
Genre/Form
Collected Work
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Me macho, you Jane / Dagoberto Gilb -- From the land of machos: journey to Oz with my father / Elías Miguel Muñoz -- Guatemalan macho oratory / Omar S. Castañeda -- How to live with a feminista and (still) be macho: notes unabridged / Juan Felipe Herrera -- 'I'm the king': the macho image / Rudolfo Anaya -- The Puerto Rican dummy and the merciful son / Martín Espada -- Of cholos and surfers / Jack López -- Whores / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Romancing the exiliado / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- All about Rachel / Rane Arroyo -- Bless me, father / Leroy V. Quintana -- The Latin phallus / Ilán Stavans -- My literary fathers / Ray Gonzalez -- On macho / Luis J. Rodríguez -- Fathers in the mirror / Virgil Suárez -- My father and the snow / Alberto Álvaro Ríos.
ISBN
0385478615
LCCN
^^^95049859^
OCLC
  • 33817626
  • SCSB-10904710
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library