Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories focus on insights from public intellectuals, political leaders, artists, academics, and activists from the region, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the global relevance of Latin America in the twenty-first century.

Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories focus on insights from public intellectuals, political leaders, artists, academics, and activists from the region, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the global relevance of Latin America in the twenty-first century.

Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, "Changing Men and Masculinities""in Latin America" is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly translated essays by noted Latin American scholars. Historically grounded and attuned to global political and economic changes, this collection investigates what, if anything, is distinctive about and common to masculinity across Latin America at the same time that it considers the relative benefits and drawbacks of studies focusing on men there. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, the contributors illuminate the changing relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes.

The contributors look at Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and the United States. They bring to bear a number of disciplines--anthropology, history, literature, public health, and sociology--and a variety of methodologies including ethnography, literary criticism, and statistical analysis. Whether analyzing rape legislation in Argentina, the unique space for candid discussions of masculinity created in an Alcoholics Anonymous group in Mexico, the role of shame in shaping Chicana and Chicano identities and gender relations, or homosexuality in Brazil, "Changing Men and Masculinities" highlights the complex distinctions between normative conceptions of masculinity in Latin America and the actual experiences and thoughts of particular men and women.
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Contributors." Xavier Andrade, Daniel Balderston, Peter Beattie, Stanley Brandes, Hector Carrillo, Miguel Diaz Barriga, Agustin Escobar, Francisco Ferrandiz, Claudia Fonseca, Norma Fuller, Matthew C. Gutmann, Donna Guy, Florencia Mallon, Jose Olavarria, Richard Parker, Mara Viveros

"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.

"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.

"Gutmann's supremely engaging ethnographic writing underpins a rich analysis of what working class Mexicans are doing and thinking when they participate, or fail to participate, in social movements, party politics and the electoral process. An exemplary demonstration of how anthropological research can enrich the study of political life."--John Gledhill, Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology and author of "Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics

"Writing with a poet's ear for spoken language, a novelist's vision of story line and plot, a historian's sense of time and period, and, most of all, an ethnographer's vision of people and place, Gutmann gives us a rich, nuanced slice of contemporary Mexico, as he has lived it and absorbed it. From his vantage point in a colonia popular he unpacks Mexican national culture and politics as they are lived and expressed in daily life. Steering between the swamps of cynicism and utopianism he presents a welcomed and realistic portrait of contemporary Mexico and its contradictions."--Michael Kearney, author of "Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective

"This ethnographic study of popular politics is exceedingly lively and valuable. Gutmann demonstrates the usefulness of both top-down and bottom-up studies that, when taken together, give us the most complete and meaningful picture possible."--Judith Adler Hellman, author of "Mexican Lives

"A new book by Matt Gutmann is a gift. He writes of Oscar Lewis and agency resistance and politics, and tacos and beer, with the same fervor and understanding. This is ethnography as a poetry of life. I am delighted to see Gutmann return to SantoDomingo and explore what democracy means in the colonia. I just hope I get to go with him next time."--Miguel Centeno, author of "Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America

"The appearance of this insightful and penetrating book could not have been better timed. Just when Mexico struggles to create an authentic democracy, Gutmann analyzes with great skill the fabric of Mexican social life that is being transformed."--Thomas Skidmore, co-author of "Modern Latin America

""The Romance of Democracy offers wonderfully accessible neighborhood accounts of Mexican politics and popular nationalism in the age of NAFTA. This book, Gutmann's second on the working poor of Santo Domingo in Mexico City, brings to life individual expressions of ambivalence toward gringolandia to the north and weary cynicism about the possibility of real political change at home. Throughout, Gutmann interweaves reappraisals of globalization, democracy, the culture of poverty, and agency and resistance with his intimate conversations on politics and daily life in Santo Domingo."--Kay Warren, co-editor, "Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change and "Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State

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.

Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, "Changing Men and Masculinities""in Latin America" is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly translated essays by noted Latin American scholars. Historically grounded and attuned to global political and economic changes, this collection investigates what, if anything, is distinctive about and common to masculinity across Latin America at the same time that it considers the relative benefits and drawbacks of studies focusing on men there. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, the contributors illuminate the changing relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes.

The contributors look at Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and the United States. They bring to bear a number of disciplines--anthropology, history, literature, public health, and sociology--and a variety of methodologies including ethnography, literary criticism, and statistical analysis. Whether analyzing rape legislation in Argentina, the unique space for candid discussions of masculinity created in an Alcoholics Anonymous group in Mexico, the role of shame in shaping Chicana and Chicano identities and gender relations, or homosexuality in Brazil, "Changing Men and Masculinities" highlights the complex distinctions between normative conceptions of masculinity in Latin America and the actual experiences and thoughts of particular men and women.
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Contributors." Xavier Andrade, Daniel Balderston, Peter Beattie, Stanley Brandes, Hector Carrillo, Miguel Diaz Barriga, Agustin Escobar, Francisco Ferrandiz, Claudia Fonseca, Norma Fuller, Matthew C. Gutmann, Donna Guy, Florencia Mallon, Jose Olavarria, Richard Parker, Mara Viveros

""Fixing Men" is terrific; sharp observation, tough-minded analysis, beautiful writing."--Raewyn Connell, author of "Masculinities"
"By bringing together a focus on men's sexuality in relation to key sexual health issues such as HIV/AIDS, family planning and contraception, vasectomies, and traditional healing for sexual ailments such as impotence and infertility, "Fixing Men" makes a major contribution that should help to define the field for some time to come."--Richard Parker, author of "Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil"
"This ethnographic study of male sexuality, reproductive health and health behavior makes new and needed contribution to several scholarly debates and literatures. It is certain to attract interest from medical anthropologists, along with researchers on gender, sexuality, Mexican studies, and reproductive health."--Carole Browner, University of California, Los Angeles
"In this consistently engaging study of male reproductive health, Matt Gutmann has produced an original contribution to Latin American ethnography, the study of masculinity, and medical anthropology. Gutmann listens carefully to the life stories of men in Oaxaca and discovers among them a rich range of emotions, opinions, and behavior. As with his previous influential work, "Fixing Men" presents a serious challenge to stereotypical portraits of what it means to be a man in Mexico. Once you start reading this riveting volume, you will not be able to put it down."--Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley
"Matthew Gutmann draws on his magisterial understanding of Mexican masculinities in demonstrating how takingmale subjectivities and migration seriously can illuminate the dynamics of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. In "Fixing Men," a conspiracy of silence recedes in the face of his dialogues with Oaxacan men, whose words, labor, and bodies challenge the cultural, sexual, and neoliberal logics that have enabled scholars and public health practitioners alike to avoid these complex questions."--Charles Briggs, author of "Stories in the Time of Cholera"
""Fixing Men" is a path-breaking study of men's reproductive health in Latin America. In a scholarly field where the focus is almost entirely on women, "Fixing Men" shows us that men are important reproductive actors, whose problems, needs, and desires must be addressed in the fields of family planning, sex education, and HIV/AIDS. This book represents an important contribution to the anthropology of reproduction, the new masculinity studies, and to Oaxacan ethnography. Global health practitioners would also benefit from Gutmann's insights about the need to address men directly in reproductive healthcare delivery."--Marcia C. Inhorn, author of "Local Babies, Global Science"