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from Part I - The Spanish Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2023
This chapter revisits the latest trends in the historiography of gender in the Age of Revolutions in current Latin America and proposes the need to put politics at center stage. Based on new scholarship on the rise of political actors in the viceroyalty of Peru in these transitional years, the text argues that the Era of Revolutions saw the emergence of a new patriarchal order that brought about a new masculine identity tightly connected with force, action, and modern politics. While new men found unprecedented opportunities to take on positions of authority and power, this process led to a renewed exclusion of other masculine identities, homosexuals, and women from public and political arenas. Moreover, this exclusion brought about a mysoginistic and machista discourse that dominated reform projects, legal documents, the press, arts, and theater. Studying this discourse, the chapter argues, is crucial to understanding exclusionary practices in politics that remain in place in the region to this day.
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