Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America / Matthew C. Gutmann 1

Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity / Mara Viveros Vigoya 27

Urban Men and Masculinities

Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood / Claudia Fonseca 61

Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico / Agustin Escobar Latapi 84
Malandros, Maria Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown / Francisco Ferrandiz 115

The Social Constructions of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males / Norma Fuller 134

Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City / Stanley Brandes 153

Representations and Practices
Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965-74 / Florencia E. Mallon 179

Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer arana / Daniel Balderston 216

Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 / Peter M. Beattie 233
Verguenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives / Miguel Diaz Barriga 256

Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador / X. Andrade 281

Sexuality and Paternity

Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexualities in Brazil / Richard Parker 307

Men at Home?: Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers/ Jose Olavarria 333

Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico / Hector Carrillo 351

Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 370

Contributors 393

Index 399