Matthew C. Gutmann

‘Men-streaming’ gender? Questions for gender and development policy in the twenty-first century

Insofar as gender is still so often equated with women alone, the move from Women in Development to Gender in Development has changed very little. Men as a human category have always been present, involved, consulted, obeyed and disobeyed in development work. Yet men as a gendered category in a feminist sense - involving unequal power relations between men and women and between men - have rarely been drawn into development programmes in any substantial way. This paper addresses conceptual and operational obstacles to men’s involvement in gender and development, drawing on interviews with over 40 representatives of development organizations in Britain and the USA in 1999.

Dystopian Travels in Gringolandia: Engendering Ethnicity Among Mexican Migrants to the United States

This article examines the correlation between migration to the United States from Mexico, ethnicity, and changing gender relations among Mexicans on both sides of the international border. For example, the idea that Mexican society is homogenous and static, and therefore that only when they arrive in the United States do men and women from Mexico confront challenges to gender roles associated with traditionalism and patriarchy, is demonstrably false if nonetheless persistent. Using changing gender relations as illustrative of transformations associated more broadly with transnationalism, modernity, and ethnicity, I argue that an understanding of shifting relations between men and women as husbands and wives, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, must be grounded in a rich knowledge of the changing conditions in the country of origin, Mexico, as well as the country of destination, the United States.

Rituals of Resistance

In the context of new world orders threatening from above and new popular struggles breaking out from below, description and analysis of mass protest in Latin America is confronted with the need for comprehensive theories of social conflict. To account for these developments among the subaltern classes, Latin Americanists are increasingly turning to the views of James C. Scott regarding &dquo;everyday forms of resistance.&dquo; I hope to show that important aspects of his model hinder our efforts to understand and develop theories of conflict in Latin America. Gilbert Joseph calls Scott’s &dquo;the most visible and polished statement of

Traficando con hombres: la antropología de la masculinidad

La antropologia siempre ha tenido que ver con hombres hablando con hombres sobre hombres, no obstante es bastante reciente el que dentro de la disciplina unos pocos hayan realmente examinado a los hombres como hombres. Este articulo explora el como entienden, utilizan y discuten los antropologos la categoria de masculinidad mediante la revision de analisis recientes sobre los hombres como sujetos que tienen genero a la vez que lo otorgan. Se comienza con las descripciones de cuatro formas distintas de definicion y tratamiento de la masculinidad en la antropologia, y se presta atencion especial a las relaciones de diferencia, desigualdad, y mujeres con el estudio antropologico de las masculinidades, incluida la curiosa omision de la teoria feminista por patie de numerosos antropologos estudiosos de lo varonil. Los temas especificos que se discuten abarcan las diversas economias culturales de la masculinidad, la nocion de regiones culturales en relacion a las imagenes de hombria, amistad masculina, machismo, corporalidad masculina, violencia, poder, y fisuras sexuales.

Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach

Even a cursory review of cross-cultural studies of men and masculinities could result in the depressing conclusion that men are dominant in most if not all societal spheres in most societies today and historically, and therefore that there must be something essentially human (and even more fundamentally, something biological) about unequal gender relations if there is such a common pattern. Yet the same comparative analysis that might persuade us to believe in the ubiquity of male supremacy can also, in the classic anthropological tradition of the negative instance, be inspiring and hopeful as we examine a myriad of exceptions in societies around the world today and in the past. Indeed a closer reading of contemporary and historical gender relations forces us inexorably to an appreciation of the profound diversity, tolerance, and cooperation in gender relations, often alongside and in simultaneous contradiction to the more often remarked upon power imbalances and divisions.

O FETICHE TOTÊMICO DA SEXUALIDADE MASCULINA Oito erros comuns

The notion of innate female sex drives, urges, and impulses has been repeatedly challenged and explored in a sophisticated feminist literature on womens sex...

Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America (review)

Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier, and Janise Hurtig have compiled a sophisticated, nuanced, and thoroughly grounded collection of essays on gender that draws on ethnographic, historical, and theoretical work being done by some of the leading scholars of gender in Latin America, both young and less so. Bookended by short, provocative essays by Ruth Behar and June Nash, the editors’ goal to tear down some fences in gender studies of the region, to desalambrar, is on the whole achieved with clarity, skill, and panache.

The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City.

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 books key protagonists.

Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes Since 1956.

In this comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, Timothy Wickham-Crowley explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in nearly a dozen cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of the guerrillas themselves and on national social conditions, the author explains why guerrillas emerged strongly in certain countries but not others. He considers, for example, under what circumstances guerrillas acquire military strength and why they do--or do not--secure substantial support from the peasantry in rural areas.In this comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, Timothy Wickham-Crowley explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in nearly a dozen cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of the guerrillas themselves and on national social conditions, the author explains why guerrillas emerged strongly in certain countries but not others. He considers, for example, under what circumstances guerrillas acquire military strength and why they do--or do not--secure substantial support from the peasantry in rural areas.