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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. State and Gender in Latin America -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America -- II. Case Studies -- Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750–1850 -- Slave Women's Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State -- Rape and the Anxious Republic -- Property, Households, and Public Regulation of Domestic Life -- Parents Before the Tribunals -- Modernizing Patriarchy -- Commemorating the Heroínas -- Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law -- Domesticating Men -- State, Gender, and Institutional Change -- Gender and the State in Argentina -- Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America -- Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity -- Urban Men and Masculinities -- Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working- Class Neighborhood -- Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico -- Malandros, María Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown -- The Social Constitution of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males -- Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City -- Representations and Practices -- Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965–74 -- Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer araña -- Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 -- Vergüenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives -- Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador -- Sexuality and Paternity -- Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Brazil -- Men at Home? Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers -- Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico -- Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina -- Contributors -- Index