Gutmann Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8454-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gutmann, Matthew C.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Viveros Vigoya, Mara

Fonseca, Claudia Lee Williams

Escobar Latapí, Agustín

Ferrándiz, Francisco

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 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 399

Über Autor(innen)

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).