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abortion
aids
Author_Matthew C. Gutmann
biomedical
birth control
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contraception
diseases
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ethnography
family
family planning
gender and sex
gender studies
health behavior
hiv
impotence
indigenous medical practitioners
infertility
infidelity
latin america
masculinity
medical anthropology
men
men and sexuality
men and women
mexico
natural desires
oaxaca
politics
reproduction
reproductive rights
sex
solitude
sterilization
traditional sexual healing
vasectomy
Product details
- ISBN 9780520253308
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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."
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.
