Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

Description

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, Hector Carrillo, Miguel Diaz Barriga, Agustin Escobar, Francisco Ferrandiz, Claudia Fonseca, Norma Fuller, Matthew C. Gutmann, Donna Guy, Florencia Mallon, Jose Olavarria, Richard Parker, Mara Viveros

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Central America
• SS Central America

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 20 janvier 2003
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822384540
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Edited by Matthew C. Gutmann

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Acknowledgments

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matthew c. gutmann, Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America 1

mara viveros vigoya, Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity 27

U R B A N M E N A N D M A S C U L I N I T I E S

claudia fonseca, Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood 61

agustín escobar latapí, Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico 84

francisco ferrándiz,Malandros,María Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown 115

norma fuller, The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males 134

stanley brandes, Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City 153

R E P R E S E N T A T I O N S A N D P R A C T I C E S

florencia e. mallon,Barbudos,Warriors, and Rotos:The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965–74 179

daniel balderston, Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes toEl beso de la mujer araña216

peter m. beattie, Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery’s Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 233

miguel díaz barriga,Vergüenzaand Changing Chicano/a Narratives 256

x. andrade, Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador 281

S E X U A L I T Y A N D P A T E R N I T Y

richard parker, Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil

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josé olavarría, Men at Home? Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers

héctor carrillo, NeitherMachosnorMaricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico 351

donna j. guy, Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina 370

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The original impulse for this volume emerged from a desire to share with English-speaking readers recent scholarship by specialists in the field of men and masculinities in Latin America who themselves are from and reside in Latin America. I am delighted to be able to include in this col- lection essays by some of the foremost chroniclers and analysts of men and masculinities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, the United States, and Spain. I am very grateful to the authors of the chapters published here for accepting the invitation to participate in this e√ort and, even more, for their unfailing graciousness and couvade-like generosity in bringing our project to completion. This collection of essays is quite consciously an attempt to extend femi- nist theory and gender studies in Latin America in new directions, which is appropriate given our great debt to those pioneers in women’s and feminist studies who, far more than was the case in the United States or England, for example, provided the impetus and personnel that enabled scholarship on men and masculinities in Latin America to emerge in the first place. With great good fortune we are able to build here on several recent collections devoted to studying men and masculinities in Latin America that have only appeared in Portuguese or Spanish, and I therefore wish to acknowledge the enduring influence of compilations by scholars such as