The Meanings of Macho - Being a Man in Mexico City

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Gutmann is Professor of Anthropology! Ethnic Studies! and Latin American Studies at Brown University and is the author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City (Tenth Anniversary edition! 2006) and The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico (2002)! both from UC Press. Klappentext Praise for the first edition: "Gutmann has done the hithertofore seemingly unthinkable. [A] wholly other vision of Mexican gender relations emerges."-José Limón! American Anthropologist "This book does for the study of men what two generations of feminist anthropologists have done for the study of women."-Lynn Stephen! author of Zapotec Women Zusammenfassung A study of machismo in Mexico City, this work overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and looks at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition  Maps  Introduction: Gender Conventions  I. Real Mexican Machos Are Born to Die  2. The Invasion of Santo Domingo  3. Imaginary Fathers! Genuine Fathers  4. Motherly Presumptions and Presumptuous Mothers 5. Men's Sex  6. Diapers and Dishes! Words and Deeds  7. Degendering Alcohol  8. Fear and Loathing in Male Violence  9. Machismo  IO. Creative Contradictions  Notes  Glossary  Bibliography  Index

Product details

• Authors: Matthew C. Gutmann, Matthew Charles Gutmann
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2006
• EAN: 9780520250130
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25013-0
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Men and Masculinity; Men & Masculinity S.; Men and Masculinity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Mexico, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gender studies, gender groups