Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

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Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

Edited by: Matthew C. Gutmann
With contributions by: Mara Viveros Vigoya , Claudia Lee Williams Fonseca , Agustín Escobar Latapí and Francisco Ferrándiz

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2003

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Essays drawn from a variety of disciplines both review and challenge current understandings of masculinity in Latin America.

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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).

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“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 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, coeditor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America

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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America
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Matthew C. Gutmann

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Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity
27
Mara Viveros Vigoya

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Urban Men and Masculinities
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Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working- Class Neighborhood
61
Claudia Fonseca

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Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico
84
Agustín Escobar Latapí

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Malandros, María Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown
115
Francisco Ferrándiz

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The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males
134
Norma Fuller

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Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City
153
Stanley Brandes

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Representations and Practices
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Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965–74
179
Florencia E. Mallon

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Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer araña
216
Daniel Balderston

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Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery’s Decline in Brazil, 1850–90
233
Peter M. Beattie

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Vergüenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives
256
Miguel Díaz Barriga

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Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador
281
X. Andrade

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Sexuality and Paternity
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Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil
307
Richard Parker

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Men at Home? Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers
333
José Olavarría

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Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico
351
Héctor Carrillo

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Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina
370
Donna J. Guy

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Contributors
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Index
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Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America

Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity

Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working- Class Neighborhood

Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico

Malandros, María Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown

The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males

Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City

Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965–74

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

Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery’s Decline in Brazil, 1850–90

Vergüenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives

Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador

Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil

Men at Home? Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers

Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico

Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina

Contributors

Index

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