Susan Paulson - Masculinities and Femininities in Latin Americas Uneven Development

Recent historical processes that have improved conditions for some people and places in Latin America while exacerbating the exploitation and degradation of others can be only partly understood with women-centered approaches. This books strategy is not to add men and mix, but to shake up fundamental ideas about gender and development via three theoretical moves. The first shifts attention from individual actors toward sociocultural systems that produce and interconnect actors and environments. The second recognizes that gender operates not as a discrete category but in intersection with other systems of difference. And the third looks beyond colonial/modern models to appreciate the diversity and mutability of gender arrangements in the ethnographic and historical record. A multi-scale framework and mixed methods research bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends considered include the massive incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization of the countryside and feminization of cities, and rapidly increasing gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy. Case studies in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia explore changing practices and expectations that involve men in different ways than women, with particular attention to power relations among hierarchically differentiated masculinities. Political economic and family changes, environmental challenges, and extraordinarily violent regimes of masculinity heighten needsand offer opportunitiesto forge new kinds of identities and relations. This book supports those efforts by drawing attention to a wider range of gendered actors and dynamics that are integral to the production and reproduction of healthy institutions and environments.

Susan Paulson is Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

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46Masculinities and Femininities in Latin Americas Uneven Development

Susan Paulson

Susan Paulson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Masculinities and femininities in Latin Americas uneven development /
[edited] by Susan Paulson.
pages cm. (Routledge research in gender and society ; 46)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Sexual division of laborLatin America.2.WomenLatin
America.3.Sex roleLatin America.4.Economic development
Latin America.I.Paulson, Susan, 1961 editor.
HD6060.65.L29M37 2016
306.3'615098dc232015014028

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SUSAN PAULSON AND JIMENA MNDEZ NAVARRO

SUSAN PAULSON AND TERESA BORNSCHLEGL

The understanding expressed in this book developed through the course of uncountable conversations across cultural perspectives, disciplinary approaches and theoretical positions. I am deeply grateful for the generosity and interest of the interlocutors named here and of others too plentiful to enumerate. None of these, of course, is responsible for any shortcomings or misinterpretations conveyed in the book.