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This work explores the relationships between the creation and representation of diverse masculinities in Mexico and their link to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). It specifically focuses on the relationship between the economic and political crisis of the Mexican State that started during the nineties and the emerging narratives that questioned the construction of normative masculinities. It analyzes three Mexican novels written during these years: Salón de Belleza by Mario Bellatin (1994), La cresta de Ilión by Cristina Rivera Garza (2002), and El fin de la pornografía by Ricardo Chávez Castañeda (2006), considering their settings as heterotopic spaces inhabited by men who contravene the hegemonic masculinity. It also suggests that the political and economical changes helped to fracture the walls of these spaces giving visibility to those who were secluded behind them.