The Meanings of MacHo: Being a Man in Mexico City

In this compelling and readable study of machismo in one of Latin America's most populous cities, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico. In their place he offers a sensitive, wide-ranging, often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, socialize among themselves, and talk about sex in their daily lives. Gutmann finds that men and women are responding to sweeping social forces in Mexico, just as they are in the United States, with women often initiating changes in male attitudes and behaviors. The Meanings of Macho takes the reader into Santo Domingo, Mexico City, the working-class neighborhood where Gutmann and his family lived. Exploring women's conceptions about men as well as men's ideas about themselves, Gutmann uncovers intriguing, complicated sexual politics among friends and informants. He discovers that, against stereotype, many men's nuanced, complicated sense of sexual identity encompasses considerable child care responsibilities and recognition of a newfound female autonomy. He also considers the kinds of homosocial space men are afforded in their culture, how violence against women plays itself out in this community, and the role of alcohol in male socializing.

The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City

Politics & Social Sciences

Gutmann, Matthew C.

Social Sciences

University of California Press

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.

The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico

Most studies on reproductive rights make women their focus, but in Fixing Men, Matthew Gutmann illuminates what men in the Mexican state of Oaxaca say and do about contraception, sex, and AIDS. Based on extensive fieldwork, this breakthrough study by a preeminent anthropologist of men and masculinities reveals how these men and the women in their lives make decisions about birth control, how they cope with the plague of AIDS, and the contradictory healing techniques biomedical and indigenous medical practitioners employ for infertility, impotence, and infidelity. Gutmann talks with men during and after their vasectomies and discovers why some opt for sterilization while so many others feel "planned out of family planning."

Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico

History

Americas

Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War

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.

Military

Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of ‘Latin America’ and the ‘United States’. This landmark volume presents key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas, thereby challenging the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies. 
<ul> <li>Brings together key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas. 
</li> <li>Charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the 'United States'. 
</li> <li>Challenges the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies as approached by anthropologists, historians, and other scholars. 
</li> <li>Offers instructors, students, and interested readers both the theoretical tools and case studies necessary to rethink transnational realities and identities.</li> </ul>

Perspectives on Las Americas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (Global Perspectives)

Stephen, Lynn

Zavella, Patricia

Matos-Rodriquez, Felix V.

Wiley/Blackwell

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The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City

The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City

The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico

Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico

Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War

Perspectives on Las Americas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (Global Perspectives)