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Save 4.2.2 Meretricious Mexicali Eric Shantz.pdf For Later MASCULINITY ==“
a SEXUALITY IN
MODERN MEXICO
EDITED BY
Vicror M. MAciAS-GonzALEZ
ann ANNE RUBENSTEIN “=~
University of New Mexico Press ¢ Albuquerque © 2012 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved. Published 2012
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Masculinity and sexuality in modern Mexico / edited by Victor M. Macias-Gonzalez
and Anne Rubenstein,
p.cm, — (Didlogos series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8263-2905-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8263-2906-6 (electronic)
1. Masculinity—Mexico—History. 2. Men—Mexico—Identity.
3. Machismo—Mexico. 4. Sex—Mexico—History. 5. Sex role—Mexico—History.
6. Men—Mexico—Social life and customs. 7. Mexico—Civilization.
1. Macfas-Gonzélez, Victor M.,1970-_ II. Rubenstein, Anne.
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Meretricious Mexicali
_ Exalted Masculinities and the Crafting of Male Desire
P in a Border Red-Light District, 1908-1925
ERIC SCHANTZ
> RUDOLPH VALENTINO AND HIS SOON-TO-BE SECOND WIFE, NATACHA
mbova, boarded an automobile in the spring of 1922 with friends and
waded south for Mexicali, Baja California, to get married on the other side
the international border, beyond any interference from American courts."
lolly wood film stars popularized the border marriage as a form of tourism
at brought Americans to indulge in Mexico's notoriously permissive bor-
der zone. Valentino had been granted a divorce from his first wife, actress
Jean Acker, but it would not be effective until March 4, 1923. Hollywood’s first
Latin lover and Rambova impetuously followed the example of their indus-
try friends, director Frank Mayo and actress Dagmar Godowsky, who had
tied the knot earlier that year in Tijuana.” But Valentino and Rambova chose
_ to go to Mexicali, a youthfully exuberant border city that became the capital
of northern Baja California in 1915, while Mexico's dueling Revolutionary
- factions struggled for national power.
Attempting to declare Baja California neutral from the internecine
conflict that was consuming Mexico, Governor Colonel Esteban Cantu rose
to power and held on to it largely by establishing the territory as a safe haven
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