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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew C. GutmannPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780822330349ISBN 10: 0822330342 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 20 January 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America / Matthew C. Gutmann 1 Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity / Mara Viveros Vigoya 27 Urban Men and Masculinities Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood / Claudia Fonseca 61 Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico / Agustin Escobar Latapi 84 Malandros, Maria Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown / Francisco Ferrandiz 115 The Social Constructions of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males / Norma Fuller 134 Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City / Stanley Brandes 153 Representations and Practices Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965-74 / Florencia E. Mallon 179 Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer arana / Daniel Balderston 216 Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 / Peter M. Beattie 233 Verguenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives / Miguel Diaz Barriga 256 Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador / X. Andrade 281 Sexuality and Paternity Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexualities in Brazil / Richard Parker 307 Men at Home?: Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers/ Jose Olavarria 333 Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico / Hector Carrillo 351 Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 370 Contributors 393 Index 399ReviewsChanging Men and Masculinities in Latin America stands on the frontier of gender studies. Its interdisciplinarity, broad historical scope, and multicountry coverage portray well the diversity of masculinities in Latin America. Elizabeth Dore, co-editor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America The essays in this volume represent a significant advance for our understanding of both the texture and obstinate endurance of inequality in Latin America. Building on recent breakthrough studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Changing Men and Masculinities opens up worlds of male experience, from the bedroom to the workplace. The volume confirms that masculinity is a useful, and indispensable, category of analysis. -Greg Grandin, author of The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation ... Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin American will come as something of a godsend... provides rich contextual insights into men and masculinity in different Latin AMerican countries, as well as lending weight to issues of broader theoretical significance ... --Jrnl of Latin American Studies, February 2005 Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America stands on the frontier of gender studies. Its interdisciplinarity, broad historical scope, and multicountry coverage portray well the diversity of masculinities in Latin America. Elizabeth Dore, co-editor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America The essays in this volume represent a significant advance for our understanding of both the texture and obstinate endurance of inequality in Latin America. Building on recent breakthrough studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Changing Men and Masculinities opens up worlds of male experience, from the bedroom to the workplace. The volume confirms that masculinity is a useful, and indispensable, category of analysis. -Greg Grandin, author of The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation ... Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin American will come as something of a godsend... provides rich contextual insights into men and masculinity in different Latin AMerican countries, as well as lending weight to issues of broader theoretical significance ... --Jrnl of Latin American Studies, February 2005 ""Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America stands on the frontier of gender studies. Its interdisciplinarity, broad historical scope, and multicountry coverage portray well the diversity of masculinities in Latin America."" Elizabeth Dore, co-editor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America ""The essays in this volume represent a significant advance for our understanding of both the texture and obstinate endurance of inequality in Latin America. Building on recent breakthrough studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Changing Men and Masculinities opens up worlds of male experience, from the bedroom to the workplace. The volume confirms that masculinity is a useful, and indispensable, category of analysis.""-Greg Grandin, author of The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation "" ... Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin American will come as something of a godsend... provides rich contextual insights into men and masculinity in different Latin AMerican countries, as well as lending weight to issues of broader theoretical significance ... ""--Jrnl of Latin American Studies, February 2005 Author InformationMatthew C. Gutmann is Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences–International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. He is author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City and Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development: Debates, Reflections, Experiences (with Sylvia Chant). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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