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Book SynopsisRanging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, this title talks about what it means to be a man in Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, it illuminates the relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes.
Trade Review“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 AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
