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This chapter discusses the difficulties, in recent years, of defining violent men. By studying specific works of drama and film that deal with this topic, I identify the relationship between the global order and misogyny as reflected by the feminicides that have occurred since 1993 in Ciudad Juárez, a city located across the U.S.-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas. In this context, the violent man is available as a representation for which an actual referent is always hidden from the public eye by creating scapegoats or disseminating elusive arguments. Making visible the concealed is a task that the study of gender representation and globalization attempts to perform. With this analysis I complete my study of masculinity related to the national state by proposing a global contextualization of masculinity.
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© 2007 Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
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Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, H. (2007). The Invisible Man: Masculinity and Violence. In: Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity. New Concepts in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230608894_9
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