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Informationen zum Autor Emily A. Wentzell Klappentext Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationships, and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. It is based on interviews that Emily A. Wentzell conducted with more than 250 male patients in the urology clinic of a government-run hospital in Cuernavaca. Drawing on science studies, medical anthropology, and gender theory, Wentzell suggests the idea of "composite masculinities" as a paradigm for understanding how men incorporate physical and social change into gendered selfhoods.Erectile dysfunction treatments like Viagra are popular in Mexico, where stereotypes of men as sex-obsessed "machos" persist. However, most of the men Wentzell interviewed saw erectile difficulty as a chance to demonstrate difference from this stereotype. Rather than using drugs to continue youthful sex lives, many collaborated with wives and physicians to frame erectile difficulty as a prompt to embody age-appropriate, mature masculinities. "This incisive, surprising, and poignant ethnography from the hospital wards of Cuernavaca draws on the best studies in Mexico and elsewhere regarding masculinity, sexuality, and related health issues and takes us to a whole new level of scholarship. Being a woman studying erections proves no obstacle for an anthropologist as thoughtful as Emily A. Wentzell--on the contrary, she deftly uses it to her advantage, exploring how women so often help to create and define men's sexuality."--Matthew C. Gutmann, editor of "Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America" Zusammenfassung Based on interviews with male patients in a urology clinic in Cuernavaca! Maturing Masculinities offers an exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Changing Bodies and Masculinities in Post-Viagra Mexico 1 1. Mexicanness, Machismo, and Maturity in Composite Masculinities 35 2. Sex, Relationships, and Masculinities 60 3. Chronic Illnesses as Composite Problems 86 4. Rejecting Erectile Dysfunction Drugs 110 5. Medical Erectile Dysfunction Treatment in Context 136 Conclusion. Cultural Change Over Time in Responses to Erectile Difficulty 162 Bibliography 187 Index 197 ...
