Reforming Gender: The Effects of Economic Change on Masculinity and Femininity in Mexico and the U.S
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In his celebrated book, The Meanings of Macho (1992), anthropologist Matthew C. Gutmann explores the changing character of masculinity in Mexico City. Buffeted by economic crisis in the late 1980s, middleclass men and women increasingly had to pool personal incomes to support families. Unable to sustain long-held patriarchal expectations, men made virtue out of necessity. “Women are becoming independent,” explained one of Guttman’s informants, “because men are giving [them] freedom to work. Now women and men have to help each other out. That’s why they both have opinions” (p. 161).
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