Sexual Positions: Caveats and Second Thoughts on “Categories”
- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Americas
- Vol. 54 (1) , 1-16
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1007500
Abstract
I am deeply honored to be asked to address the Conference on Latin American History, especially on the topic of gay/lesbian studies. As a way of discussing gay studies in Latin America, let me reflect on my ethnographic research on gender and sexuality in Nicaragua. Because I am an anthropologist, I will focus on problems of ethnographic representation. But ultimately and, I think, logically, these problems open to historical questions as well. First, then, a brief reprise of my arguments about male same-sex relations, as developed inLife is Hardand elsewhere.Keywords
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