Fixing Men : Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico
Matthew C. Gutmann
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2007.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (281 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; 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. - 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
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| Emner | Men - Attitudes - Mexico
Men - Sexual behavior - Mexico Mexico - Public opinion Sex - Public opinion - Mexico Vis mer... Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Attitude Attitude to Health Behavior Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Behavioral Disciplines and Activities Behavioral Sciences Contraception Delivery of Health Care Diseases Education Education, Nonprofessional HIV Infections Health Care Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Health Education Immune System Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Lentivirus Infections Named Groups Persons Psychiatry and Psychology RNA Virus Infections Reproductive Techniques Retroviridae Infections Sex Education Sexology Sexual Behavior Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Slow Virus Diseases Therapeutics Virus Diseases Men - Mexico - Attitudes. Sex - Mexico - Public opinion. Gender & Ethnic Studies Gender Studies & Sexuality Social Sciences Mexico sosialantropologi antropologi seksualitet menn AIDS prevensjon kjønn |
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| ISBN | 0520252624. - 0520253302. - 9780520252622. - 9780520253308
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