A Threat to the Nation: México Marimacho and Female Masculinities in Postrevolutionary Mexico

• Autores: Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
• Localización: Hispanic review, ISSN-e 1553-0639, Vol. 81, Nº 1, 2013, págs. 41-62
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Literature, among other artistic expressions, played a relevant role in the construction of Mexicanness-lo mexicano-a concept that began to be articulated in the decades following the Mexican Revolution. In this article I examine the novel México marimacho (1933) by Mexican writer Salvador Quevedo y Zubieta (1859-1935), in which I analyze the literary representation of the marimacho-mannish woman-as a female masculinity figure that embodies the cultural and socioeconomic changes that women experienced in the 1920s and 1930s in Mexico. Also, I explore the crucial role played by the patriarchal and heteronormative discourses used in the novel to construct and construe the literary representation of the marimacho: the novel of the revolution and its stereotyped character of the female soldier-la soldadera-and the pervasive medical discourse that in the text dissects and diagnoses the marimacho as an abject and "ill" body present in Mexico's postrevolutionary era.