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Are men animals? : how modern masculinity sells men short
\"Boys will be boys,\" the saying goes--but what does that actually mean? Anthropologist Gutmann argues that predatory male behavior is in no way inevitable. Men behave the way they do because culture permits it, not because biology demands it. To prove this, he embarks on a global investigation of masculinity.
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The meanings of macho
In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists.
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Breaking ranks
Breaking Ranks brings a new and deeply personal perspective to the war in Iraq by looking into the lives of six veterans who turned against the war they helped to fight. Based on extensive interviews with each of the six, the book relates why they enlisted, their experiences in training and in early missions, their tours of combat, and what has happened to them since returning home. The compelling stories of this diverse cross section of the military recount how each journey to Iraq began with the sincere desire to do good. Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Anne Lutz show how each individual's experiences led to new moral and political understandings and ultimately to opposing the war.
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Global Latin America : into the twenty-first century
\"Latin America has a unique historical and cultural context, is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico, and is tied to world regions including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America considers this regional interconnectedness and examines its meaning and impact in a global world. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories highlight the insights of public intellectuals, political leaders, artists, academics, and activists, thereby allowing students to gain an appreciation of the diversity and global relevance of Latin America in the twenty-first century\"--Provided by publisher.
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TRAFFICKING IN MEN: The Anthropology of Masculinity
Anthropology has always involved men talking to men about men, yet until
fairly recently very few within the discipline had truly examined men
as
men
. This chapter explores how anthropologists understand, utilize, and
debate the category of masculinity by reviewing recent examinations of men as
engendered and engendering subjects. Beginning with descriptions of four
distinct ways in which masculinity is defined and treated in anthropology,
special attention is paid to the relations of difference, inequality, and women
to the anthropological study of masculinities, including the awkward avoidance
of feminist theory on the part of many anthropologists who study manhood.
Specific topics discussed include the diverse cultural economies of
masculinity, the notion of cultural regions in relation to images of manhood,
male friendship, machismo, masculine embodiment, violence, power, and sexual
faultlines.
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The Romance of Democracy
The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighborhood democracy, what their dreams are for a better society, and how these dreams play out in their daily lives. Based on extensive fieldwork in the same neighborhood he discussed in his acclaimed book The Meanings of Macho, Matthew C. Gutmann now explores the possibilities for political and social change in the world's most populous city. In the process he provides a new perspective on many issues affecting Mexicans countrywide.
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Scoring Men: Vasectomies and the Totemic Illusion of Male Sexuality in Oaxaca
This paper discusses research on men's reproductive health and sexuality in Oaxaca, Mexico, and specifically why some men there choose to be sterilized. Men who opt for vasectomies do so after considering numerous cultural, historical, physiological, commercial, and other concerns. Men and women in Oaxaca negotiate certain cultural folk beliefs about supposed male sexual desires and practices before arriving at the decision to get the operation. Vasectomy as a method of birth control is chosen despite folk beliefs that take the form of a totemic illusion which treats male sexuality as naturalized, something fixed, and as entirely distinct from female sexuality. Among its many consequences, this totemic illusion serves to conceal inequalities in the sphere of reproductive health and sexuality in relation to contraception.
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‘Men-streaming’ gender? Questions for gender and development policy in the twenty-first century
Insofar as gender is still so often equated with women alone, the move from Women in
Development to Gender in Development has changed very little. Men as a human
category have always been present, involved, consulted, obeyed and disobeyed in
development work. Yet men as a gendered category in a feminist sense - involving
unequal power relations between men and women and between men - have rarely been
drawn into development programmes in any substantial way. This paper addresses
conceptual and operational obstacles to men’s involvement in gender and
development, drawing on interviews with over 40 representatives of development
organizations in Britain and the USA in 1999.
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Dystopian travels in Gringolandia: Engendering ethnicity among Mexican Migrants to the United States
This article examines the correlation between migration to the United States from Mexico, ethnicity, and changing gender relations among Mexicans on both sides of the international border. For example, the idea that Mexican society is homogenous and static, and therefore that only when they arrive in the United States do men and women from Mexico confront challenges to gender roles associated with traditionalism and patriarchy, is demonstrably false if nonetheless persistent. Using changing gender relations as illustrative of transformations associated more broadly with transnationalism, modernity, and ethnicity, I argue that an understanding of shifting relations between men and women as husbands and wives, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, must be grounded in a rich knowledge of the changing conditions in the country of origin, Mexico, as well as the country of destination, the United States.
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