How Machismo Got Its Spurs—in English: Social Science, Cold War Imperialism, and the Ethnicization of Hypermasculinity

This article seeks to shift the framework of decades-long debates on the nature and significance of 'machismo', debunking the commonly held notion that the word describes a primordial Iberian and Ibero-American phenomenon. I trace the emergence of machismo as an English-language term, argu...

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Main Author: Benjamin Arthur Cowan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Latin American Studies Association 2017-10-01
Series:Latin American Research Review
Online Access:https://larrlasa.org/articles/100