| Description |
1 online resource (276 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality |
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Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Masculinity and Sexuality of the Migrant Man; PART I The Migrant's Journey; 1 The Art of Cholear: Race, Class, and the Peruvian Dilemma; 2 Living Transnationally: Emotional Remmitances and Virtual Social Capital; PART II Becoming and Being a Man; 3 The Early Years: Becoming a Man and Masculine Capital; 4 Being a Man: The Winner, the Failed, and the Good Enough Man; 5 Friendship Between Men and the Mundo de Patas; 6 Gay Masculinities: "God Forgives the Sin but Not the Scandal"; PART III Transnational Sexual Lives |
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7 Imagined Romances: Searching for Love Transnationally8 Migration and the Transformation of Intimacy; 9 Conclusion: Towards a Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration; Appendix 1: Glossary; Appendix 2: Description of Life History Interviewees; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book explores the masculinity and sexuality of migration, analyzing the complex processes of becoming a man and the strategies used by men to reconcile paradoxes and contradictions that co-exist between multiple masculinities and contradictory models of being a man. Vasquez del Aguila offers a number of conceptual contributions, including the notion of "masculine capital" that provides men with the necessary "masculine" skills and cultural competence to achieve legitimacy and social recognition as men; an analysis of male friendship where notions of solidarity and intimacy co-exist wit |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134601813 |
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1134601816 |
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