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Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America's Uneven Development (Paperback)
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Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America's Uneven Development (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
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This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical
change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the
evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical
approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework
to bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends
demonstrated with quantitative data include the massive
incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization
of the countryside and feminization of cities, rapidly increasing
gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy,
and extraordinarily high levels of violence against men. Case
studies in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia explore changes influenced by
gender practices and expectations that involve men in different
ways than women; they also highlight dissimilarities and power
relations between differently positioned masculine groups.
Ethnographic studies of culturally diverse arrangements, together
with particular attention to subordinate versus dominant
masculinities, complicate the gender binaries that circumscribe so
much research and policy. Drawing attention to imbalances and
conflicts generated by inappropriate models and uneven
developments, the book points to opportunities for experimenting
with and adapting the sociocultural institutions that govern
relations among humans and between humans and their environment.
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