Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Matthew 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).
“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,<i> Changing Men and Masculinities</i> 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 <i>The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation</i> ”<i>Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America</i> 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, coeditor of <i>Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America</i>
The contributors look at Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and the United States. They bring to bear a number of disciplines-anthropology, history, literature, public health, and sociology-and a variety of methodologies including ethnography, literary criticism, and statistical analysis. Whether analyzing rape legislation in Argentina, the unique space for candid discussions of masculinity created in an Alcoholics Anonymous group in Mexico, the role of shame in shaping Chicana and Chicano identities and gender relations, or homosexuality in Brazil, Changing Men and Masculinities highlights the complex distinctions between normative conceptions of masculinity in Latin America and the actual experiences and thoughts of particular men and women.
Contributors. Xavier Andrade, Daniel Balderston, Peter Beattie, Stanley Brandes, HÉctor Carrillo, Miguel DÍaz Barriga, AgustÍn Escobar, Francisco FerrÁndiz, Claudia Fonseca, Norma Fuller, Matthew C. Gutmann, Donna Guy, Florencia Mallon, JosÉ OlavarrÍa, Richard Parker, Mara Viveros
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 399
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Matthew 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).