The Ethnographic (G)Ambit: Women and the Negotiation of Masculinity in Mexico City

American Ethnologist 24(4):833-55 (1997)

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Matthew Gutmann

Brown University - Watson Institute for International Studies

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

Suggested Citation

Gutmann, Matthew, The Ethnographic (G)Ambit: Women and the Negotiation of Masculinity in Mexico City (1997). American Ethnologist 24(4):833-55 (1997), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2293697 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2293697

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