Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

by Gutmann, Matthew C.; Viveros Vigoya, Mara (CON); Fonseca, Claudia (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822330349
• ISBN10: 0822330342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America	1	(26)
Matthew C. Gutmann
Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity	27	(34)
Mara Viveros Vigoya
URBAN MEN AND MASCULINITIES
Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood	61	(23)
Claudia Fonseca
Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico	84	(31)
Agustin Escobar Latapi
Malandros, Maria Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown	115	(19)
Francisco Ferrandiz
The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males	134	(19)
Norma Fuller
Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City	153	(26)
Stanley Brandes
REPRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES
Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965--74	179	(37)
Florencia E. Mallon
Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer arana	216	(17)
Daniel Balderston
Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850--90	233	(23)
Peter M. Beattie
Verguenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives	256	(51)
Miguel Diaz Barriga
Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador	281
X. Andrade
SEXUALITY AND PATERNITY
Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil	307	(26)
Richard Parker
Men at Home? Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers	333	(18)
Jose Olavarria
Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico	351	(19)
Hector Carrillo
Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina	370	(23)
Donna J. Guy
Contributors	393	(6)
Index	399