| Description |
1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Essays drawn from a variety of disciplines both review and challenge current understandings of masculinity in Latin America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Men -- Latin America -- Identity
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Masculinity -- Latin America
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Men -- Sexual behavior -- Latin America
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies.
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Masculinity
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Men -- Identity
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Men -- Sexual behavior
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822384540 |
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082238454X |
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