Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

Author: Gutmann, Matthew C.; Viveros Vigoya, Mara; Fonseca, Claudia Lee Williams; Escobar Latapí, Agustín; Ferrándiz, Francisco
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330349
eISBN Pdf: 9780822384540
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 2003
Month: January
Pages: 432
DDC: 305.31/098
Language: English

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Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly translated essays by noted Latin American scholars. Historically grounded and attuned to global political and economic changes, this collection investigates what, if anything, is distinctive about and common to masculinity across Latin America at the same time that it considers the relative benefits and drawbacks of studies focusing on men there. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, the contributors illuminate the changing relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes.

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

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Matthew C. Gutmann. Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America
Mara Viveros Vigoya. Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity
URBAN MEN AND MASCULINITIES
- Claudia Fonseca. Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood
- Agustín Escobar Latapí. Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico
- Francisco Ferrándiz. Malandros, María Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown
- Norma Fuller. The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males
- Stanley Brandes. Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City
REPRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES
- Florencia E. Mallon. Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965–74
- Daniel Balderston. Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer araña
- Peter M. Beattie. Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery’s Decline in Brazil, 1850–90
- Miguel Díaz Barriga. Vergüenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives
- X. Andrade. Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador
SEXUALITY AND PATERNITY
- Richard Parker. Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil
- José Olavarría. Men at Home? Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers
- Héctor Carrillo. Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico
- Donna J. Guy. Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina
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