| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

James N. Green. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Brazil. (Worlds of Desire.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. Pp. xiii, 408. $40.00.

This book by James N. Green is a major contribution to the social history of Latin America and to the comparative study of gender and sexuality more broadly. Studies of the social construction of sexual meanings and practices in countries and cultures throughout Latin America have expanded rapidly over the course of the past decade. Initially, the primary focus of much of this work was heavily influenced by the growth of feminist scholarship, and the study of women's experiences, both in the present and in the past, dominated a first wave of social science research. More recently, however, attention has focused on masculinity, and, perhaps in particular, male homosexuality, as a key area in the broader construction of Latin American sexual cultures. Anthropological and sociological studies of same-sex relations have been carried out in almost all the major Latin American countries, and work on alternative male sexualities in Latin America has had a significant impact on the cross-cultural study of gender sexuality more broadly. Green's book is clearly situated within this wider research universe and draws heavily on many of the major theoretical insights developed in ethnographic studies carried out in Brazil and other parts of the Latin American region. . . .

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