German and Mexican Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinities and Femininities in 19th Century and Its Relevance in Mexico’s Twenty-First Century’s feminicidio and genocidio

Autor(en)

Patricia Zuckerhut

Abstrakt

Nineteenth-century European dualistic gender models
and their relevance for the newly created nation-states are
outlined. It is shown that there were close connections between
the perceptions of the male and female body as well as sexuality
and the sociological concepts of verletzungsmächtig (being capable
of violation) and verletzungsoffen (being open to violation).
The second part is dedicated to Mexico and how statesmen there
adopted the European concepts of “nation” and the (national)
“citizen” for their own ends. Symbolic figures such as Malinche,
the Virgin of Guadalupe as well as the stereotypes of the Mexican
macho and of the related caudillo were created and propagated
in order to document Mexico’s distinctiveness in comparison
with Europe and the USA. The resulting clichéd gender
relations provide the basis for contemporary struggles to uphold
hegemony that utilize human bodies to send powerful messages
to Mexican men and women. With reference to the responsibility
of the state for sexualized and other forms of violence against
women and indigenous peoples in Mexico as a vehicle to keep
them subordinate and accepting of neoliberal exploitation of the
resources in their territories, an intersection of feminicidio and
genocidio is determined.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Internationale Entwicklung, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Anthropos : internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Band

113

Seiten

525-542

ISSN

0003-5572

Publikationsdatum

2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504017 Kulturanthropologie

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1ad7830a-3849-4665-8526-d362748a4013