The Ethnographic (G)Ambit: Women and the Negotiation of Masculinity in Mexico City
American Ethnologist 24(4):833-55 (1997)
24 Pages Posted: 15 Jul 2013
Date Written: 1997
Abstract
How should we conceive, in a non-trivial manner, the cultural relation that women have to the construction of masculinities? Ethnographic fieldwork on how male identities are developed and transformed by men and women in a colonia popular of Mexico City is contrasted to other conceptual and methodological approaches employed by anthropologists to study manhood. Examining men as engendered and engendering is presented not as a complement to the study of women, but rather as integral to understanding the ambiguities of gender differences.
Keywords: Ethnography, masculinity, women, gender difference, methodology, Latin America
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