This article discusses gender and sexuality during the national period and the shift from women's history to the study of the social construction of both femininity and masculinity and of various forms of sexuality. Gender here is both a topic and a category of analysis. The discussion thus sheds much light on other aspects of—in this case, national—society, such as notions of nationality and citizenship, the nature of the modern state and law, populism, and revolutionary and feminist politics. Keywords: women's history , femininity , masculinity , female oppression , historiography , national society. Now is an ideal moment to reflect upon the accomplishments and future challenges of Latin American gender and sexuality history since Although it has been more noticeable since the late s, there has always been an ethnographic and historical tradition of gender and sexuality studies within the region.

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Machismo Sexual Identity. While machismo What is machismo? In contrast, female sexuality is seen as an object over which the male has control. Females are expected to have only one sexual partner, none before or outside of marriage 1. Machismo sexual behavior is a source of pride for males and men must prove their manliness by upholding their sexual dominance. In this way, reputation is one of the driving forces behind machismo 2. Hirsch et al.
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