Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/O American Sexual Practice
Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, And Latin/o American Sexual Practice
- Editore:
OHIO ST UNIV PR
- Collana:
- Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/
- EAN:
9780814215517
- ISBN:
0814215513
- Pagine:
- 210
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/O American Sexual Practice
How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reaching beyond queer and gay studies, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo's research suggests that this paradoxical figure mutated into what he calls the "neobugarrón," a neoliberal market-oriented actor who used the traditional sexual practice as an optimizing strategy for manipulating the forces of globalization during the 1990s. In Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice, Soto-Crespo chronicles the cultural modifications of bugarrón, a distinct male-male sexual practice in Latin/o America and the Caribbean, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Working with and against Foucault and Kinsey to examine diverse works from anthropology, literature, cinema, and social media, he investigates a wide array of bugarrón sources, ranging from previously underexamined multimedia to ethnographies, fiction, films, and beyond. These works constitute a neobugarrón archive and attest to a sexual practice currently metamorphosing on the cusp of extinction. Soto-Crespo's analysis challenges conventional understandings of "heteroflexible" sex between men and reveals a hitherto unnoticed transformation in neoliberal ecologies of bugarrón sexual practice.
