Download or read book Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity written by H. Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s.