Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer araña

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America 1
5. Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity 27
6. Urban Men and Masculinities
7. Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working- Class Neighborhood 61
8. Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico 84
9. Malandros, María Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown 115
10. The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males 134
11. Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City 153
12. Representations and Practices
13. Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965–74 179
14. Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer araña 216
15. Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery’s Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 233
16. Vergüenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives 256
17. Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador 281
18. Sexuality and Paternity
19. Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil 307
20. Men at Home? Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers 333
21. Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico 351
22. Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina 370
23. Contributors 393
24. Index 399