| Description |
416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 / Agustín Escobar Latapí -- Malandros, María Lionza, and masculinity in a Venezuelan shantytown / Francisco Ferrándiz -- 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 araña / 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 Díaz 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 / José Olavarría -- Neither machos nor maricones: masculinity and emerging male homosexual identities in Mexico / Héctor Carrillo -- Rape and the politics of masculine silence in Argentina / Donna J. Guy. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
This collection of pioneering studies reflects on what it is to be male in modern Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, the contributors illuminate the changing relationships between men & women & among men of different ethnic groups & classes. |
| Subject |
Men -- Latin America -- Identity.
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Men. |
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Latin America. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Masculinity -- Latin America.
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Masculinity. |
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Men -- Sexual behavior -- Latin America.
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Men -- Sexual behavior. |
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Men -- Identity. |
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Men. |
| Added Author |
Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953-
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| ISBN |
0822330229 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0822330342 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780822330349 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780822330226 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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