Changing men and masculinities in Latin America
Changing men and masculinities in Latin America
Essays drawn from a variety of disciplines both review and challenge current understandings of masculinity in Latin America.
This collection of pioneering studies reflects on what it is to be male in modern Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, the contributors illuminate the changing relationships between men & women & among men of different ethnic gro…
Beyond machismo: intersectional Latino masculinities
by Hurtado, Aída, Sinha, Mrinal
fromChicana Matters
"Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo--a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior--is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Y…