ISBN:
9780822330226
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (433 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America
DDC:
305.31/098
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Essays drawn from a variety of disciplines both review and challenge current understandings of masculinity in Latin America
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Matthew C. Gutmann. Introduction: DiscardingManly Dichotomies in Latin America; Mara Viveros Vigoya. Contemporary LatinAmerican Perspectives on Masculinity; URBAN MEN AND MASCULINITIES; Claudia Fonseca. Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood; Agustín Escobar Latapí. Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico; Francisco Ferrándiz. Malandros, María Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown
Description / Table of Contents:
Norma Fuller. The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian MalesStanley Brandes. Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City; REPRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES; Florencia E. Mallon. Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965-74; Daniel Balderston. Sexuality and Revolution:On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer araña; Peter M. Beattie. Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850-90; Miguel Díaz Barriga. Vergüenza and ChangingChicano/a Narratives
Description / Table of Contents:
X. Andrade. Pancho Jaime and the Political Usesof Masculinity in EcuadorSEXUALITY AND PATERNITY; Richard Parker. Changing Sexualities:Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil; José Olavarría. Men at Home? Child Rearing andHousekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers; Héctor Carrillo. Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male HomosexualIdentities in Mexico; Donna J. Guy. Rape and the Politics of MasculineSilence in Argentina; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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