Changing men and masculinities in Latin America / edited by Matthew C. Gutmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Latin America--Identity.

Men.

Masculinity--Latin America.

Masculinity.

Men--Sexual behavior--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction: Discarding manly dichotomies in Latin America / Matthew C. Gutmann

Contemporary Latin American perspectives on masculinity / Mara Viveros Vigoya

URBAN MEN AND MASCULINITIES

Philanderers, cuckolds, and wily women: reexamining gender relations in a Brazilian working-class neighborhood / Claudia Fonseca

Men and their histories: restructuring, gender inequality, and life transitions in urban Mexico / Agustin Escobar Latapi

Malandros, Maria Lionza, and masculinity in a Venezuelan shantytown / Francisco Ferrandiz

Social constructions of gender identity among Peruvian males / Norma Fuller

Drink, abstinence, and male identity in Mexico City / Stanley Brandes

REPRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES

Barbudos, warriors, and rotos: the MIR, masculinity, and power in the Chilean agrarian reform, 1965-74 / Florencia E. Mallon

Sexuality and revolution: on the footnotes to El beso de la mujer arana / Daniel Balderston

Measures of manhood: honor, enlisted army service, and slavery's decline in Brazil, 1850-90 / Peter M. Beattie

Verguenza and changing Chicano/a narratives / Miguel Diaz Barriga

Pancho Jaime and the political uses of masculinity in Ecuador / X. Andrade

SEXUALITY AND PATERNITY

Changing sexualities: masculinity and male homosexualities in Brazil / Richard Parker

Men at home?: child rearing and housekeeping among Chilean working-class fathers / Jose Olavarria

Neither machos nor maricones: masculinity and emerging male homosexual identities in Mexico / Hector Carrillo

Rape and the politics of masculine silence in Argentina / Donna J. Guy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8223-8454-X

1-283-06446-4

9786613064462

OCLC:

191222155