Machos, mistresses, madonnas : contesting the power of Latin American gender imagery / edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Playing styles and masculine virtues in Argtentine football / Eduardo P. Archetti -- Pacharacas, putas and chicas de su casa: labelling, femininity and men's sexual selves in Lima, Peru / Lorraine Nencel -- Domination and desire: male homosexuality and the construction of masculinity in Mexico / Annick Prieur -- Masculinity and the political among Dominicans: 'the Dominican tiger' / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- The Gendering of ethnicity in the Ecuadorian Andes: native women's self-fashioning in the urban marketplace / Mary M. Crain -- The Power of gender discourses in a multi-ethnic community in rural Argentina / Kristi Anne Stølen -- Power and self-identity: the beekeepers of Ayuquila / Magdalena Villareal -- The Production of gendered imagery: the concheros of Mexico / Susanna Rostas -- Power, value and the ambiguous meanings of gender / Marit Melhuus