Sonya Lipsett-Rivera has done it again by writing another well-researched and highly readable history. The author reminds readers that colonial Mexicans themselves did not use the word macho. Yet, her book analyzes precisely the colonial period (mid to late seventeenth to early nineteenth century), with an eye toward the subject of men’s experiences and notions of male behavior. Lipsett-Rivera’s motivation here is how the Mexican macho trope relates to being a man in colonial Mexico. By offering a fine-grained analysis of topics like boyhood, sexuality (heteronormative as well as homosexual), labor, violence, and male sociability, she ultimately argues that the emerging of the “macho” stereotype could occur only after Independence.

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墨西哥殖民地的男子气概 - 男子气概的起源：墨西哥殖民地的男性和男子气概。作者：索尼娅·利普塞特-里维拉。阿尔伯克基：新墨西哥大学出版社，2019 年。Pp。288. $95.00 布；29.95 美元的纸。

索尼娅·利普塞特-里维拉 (Sonya Lipsett-Rivera) 又写了另一部经过充分研究且可读性很强的历史。作者提醒读者，殖民地墨西哥人自己并没有使用男子气概这个词。然而，她的书精确地分析了殖民时期（17 世纪中后期至 19 世纪早期），着眼于男性的经历和男性行为的概念。Lipsett-Rivera 在这里的动机是墨西哥男子气概的比喻与墨西哥殖民地的男人的关系。通过对童年、性（异性恋和同性恋）、劳动、暴力和男性社交等话题进行细致的分析，她最终认为“男子气概”刻板印象的出现只能在独立之后才会出现。