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The Mexican Feminist Movement
Mexican Men’s Perspectives and Praxis
Refutes contemporary stereotypes about Mexico by sharing first-hand experiences from men who support the feminist movement in their country.
The Mexican Feminist Movement responds to the Trumpian generalization that branded Mexican men as rapists, drug dealers, killers, and "bad hombres." Contrary to what Trump has expressed, many Mexican men are deeply concerned about the number of femicides in their country, and they express that concern in varied ways—they debate the issue with family and friends, participate in rallies in support of women’s rights, and some have seen their own daughters, sisters, and partners suffer violence and daily harassment. This book offers Mexican men a space to share their lived experiences and everyday praxis in support of ending the violence that Mexican women face in society; it highlights these men’s challenges to misogyny, their stand in solidarity with women, and their work toward building more just and equitable relationships at home, at work, and in the public sphere.
Table of Contents
Preface
Survey
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapters
1.1 ‘Archives of Precarity and Lost Traditions: An Approach to the Discourses of Women in Third Spaces’.
Joseba Buj
1.2 ‘La Manuela from the “Place Without Limits” (1978), An-Other Masculinity, Flows of Desire, and the Disruption of Mexican Machismo’.
José Luis Barrios Lara
1.3 ‘Are all Mexican men innately macho, violent, and “bad hombres’”?
Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez
1.4 ‘“Ni modo:” Reflections on Patriarchy and Anti-Feminism in a German-Mexican Family’
Jürgen Buchenau
1.5 ’Excesses, censorships and deviations of masculinity: chain/s of affect-emotion-expression in male students at the School of Philosophy and Literature-UNAM (2023)’
Mauricio Zabalgoitia Herrera
Enrique Bautista Rojas
1.6 ‘“Should I call myself a feminist?” Tensions and possibilities of feminist thought and
practice in Mexican men’s lives’.
Alí Siles