Fixing Men
Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 6. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-520-25330-8 (ISBN)
Description
Most studies on reproductive rights make women their focus, but in "Fixing Men", Matthew Gutmann illuminates what men in the Mexican state of Oaxaca say and do about contraception, sex, and AIDS. Based on extensive fieldwork, this breakthrough study by a preeminent anthropologist of men and masculinities reveals how these men and the women in their lives make decisions about birth control, how they cope with the plague of AIDS, and the contradictory healing techniques biomedical and indigenous medical practitioners employ for infertility, impotence, and infidelity. Gutmann talks with men during and after their vasectomies and discovers why some opt for sterilization while so many others feel "planned out of family planning."
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
13 b-w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 11 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-25330-8 (9780520253308)
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E-Book
11/2007
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€33.99
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Person
Matthew Gutmann is Professor of Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, and Latin American Studies at Brown University and is the author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City (Tenth Anniversary edition, 2006) and The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico (2002), both from UC Press.
Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Taming Men's Natural Desires in Oaxaca 2. The Missing Gamete: Eight Common Mistakes about Men's Sexuality 3. New Labyrinths of Solitude: Lonesome Men and AIDS 4. Frisky and Risky Men: AIDS Care in Oaxaca 5. Planning Men Out of Family Planning 6. Scoring Men: Vasectomies and the Totemic Illusion of Male Sexuality 7. Traditional Sexual Healing of Men 8. From Boardrooms to Bedrooms Notes Bibliography Index