TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN SEXUALITY

A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families. By Jennifer S. Hirsch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xxi + 376 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, references, glossary and index. $24.95.

The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS. By Héctor Carrillo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ix + 371 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $14.00.

Patricia Zavella
University of California, Santa Cruz

Mexico is undergoing a sea change regarding gender and sexuality, perhaps most visible in the explicit messages about sexual risks in the capital's major newspaper. Both of these books use ethnographic research and provide complementary analyses and evidence of changing gender processes in contemporary Mexico.