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ENTRE MARICONES MACHOS, Y GAYS:
GLOBALIZATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION
OF SEXUAL IDENTITIES AMONG QUEER MEXICANOS
by
James Thing
______________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(SOCIOLOGY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 James Thing
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| Title | Entre maricones, machos, y gays: globalization and the construction of sexual identities among queer Mexicanos |
| Author | Thing, James |
| Author email | thing@usc.edu; jamesthing@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Sociology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-04-27 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-31 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Messner, Michael A. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Biblarz, Timothy J. Roman, David Carillo, Héctor |
| Abstract | “Entre Maricones, Machos, y Gays: Globalization and the Construction of Sexual Identities among Queer Mexicanos” focuses on the everyday lives of self-identified gay men in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and self-identified gay Mexican immigrant men in Los Angeles in an attempt to more fully understand the global dimensions of queer sexual identity formation. This is a multi-sited ethnography which employs semi-structured formal interviews, informal interviews and participant observation. In addition to hundreds of hours of participant observation, a total of forty-one formal interviews with self-identified gay Mexican men were conducted in Mexico City, Cuernavaca and Los Angeles.; The central argument of this dissertation is that sexual identity formation processes produce hybrid sexual identities and cultures among gay Mexican men that reveal a negotiation of two major models of male homosexuality, the so called “traditional” gender stratified activo/pasivo model and the so called “modern” object choice gay model. The negotiation of these two models is an ongoing process that begins in childhood and continues throughout adulthood and is shaped significantly by social class and regional variations. While the gendered model loomed large during youth and adolescence, during adulthood, the gay model became increasingly salient for the sexual identities of the men in this study.; Globalization shapes the process of sexual hybridization through national and international queer migration, queer tourism and the Internet. The transnational social networks that are initiated, sustained and expanded through migration, tourism and the Internet provide both the material conditions and the social spaces for the construction of hybrid gay identities. By bringing together people from divergent backgrounds, queer migration, queer tourism and the Internet facilitate the blending of identities, ideas, desires and behaviors that characterize hybridity. |
| Keyword | homosexuality; queer studies; Mexico; immigration; globalization |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles; Cuernavaca; Mexico City |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2443 |
| Rights | Thing, James |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Thing-3178 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Thing-3178.pdf |
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| Full text | ENTRE MARICONES MACHOS, Y GAYS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUAL IDENTITIES AMONG QUEER MEXICANOS by James Thing ______________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SOCIOLOGY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 James Thing |
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