Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America

Matthew C. Gutmann is Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences–International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. He is author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City and Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development: Debates, Reflections, Experiences (with Sylvia Chant).

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America / Matthew C. Gutmann 1Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity / Mara Viveros Vigoya 27Urban Men and Masculinities Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood / Claudia Fonseca 61Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico / Agustin Escobar Latapi 84Malandros, Maria Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown / Francisco Ferrandiz 115The Social Constructions of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males / Norma Fuller 134Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City / Stanley Brandes 153Representations and Practices Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965-74 / Florencia E. Mallon 179Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer arana / Daniel Balderston 216Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 / Peter M. Beattie 233Verguenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives / Miguel Diaz Barriga 256Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador / X. Andrade 281Sexuality and Paternity Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexualities in Brazil / Richard Parker 307Men at Home?: Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers/ Jose Olavarria 333Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico / Hector Carrillo 351Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 370Contributors 393Index 399

“The essays in this volume represent a significant advance for our understanding of both the texture and obstinate endurance of inequality in Latin America. Building on recent breakthrough studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Changing Men and Masculinities opens up worlds of male experience, from the bedroom to the workplace. The volume confirms that masculinity is a useful, and indispensable, category of analysis.”-Greg Grandin, author of The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation ”Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America stands on the frontier of gender studies. Its interdisciplinarity, broad historical scope, and multicountry coverage portray well the diversity of masculinities in Latin America.”-Elizabeth Dore, coeditor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America