Matthew C. Gutmann

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995
M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley, 1997

Research Interests

I study change in a variety of contexts, with special emphasis on gender/sexuality, militarization, ethnicity-race-nationalism, and health in the Americas , especially Mexico and among Latinos in the United States .

In Mexico City , I have done research on two major issues: one is changing male identities and practices with respect to fathering, sexuality, housework, alcohol, violence, and the cultural history of machismo. And, the second is popular politics as seen through participation in and abstention from elections, responses from “below” to the North American Free Trade Agreement and questions of Mexican nationalism, questions of agency and resistance, and the romance of democracy. I also have done research in Oaxaca , Mexico , regarding men's reproductive health and sexuality through ethnographic fieldwork in two vasectomy clinics, a government AIDS clinic, and among indigenous midwives, doctors, and healers.

My current research concerns militarization and the U.S. and Mexican armed forces. I am looking at conscription of Latino/as into the U.S. Army and working class and indigenous youth into the Mexican Army, cultural awareness training among UN peacekeepers, and writing a book based on oral histories of anti-war Iraq veterans.

Selected Publications

El romance de la democracia: Rebeldía sumisa en el México contemporáneo. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica (2007).

Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America. Editor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2003).

Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Co-editor with Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Lynn Stephen, and Patricia Zavella. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers (2003).

The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico Berkeley: University of California Press (2002).

Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development: Debates, Reflections, and Experiences. . Co-author with Sylvia Chant. Oxford: Oxfam (2000).

Ser hombre de verdad en la ciudad de México: Ni macho ni mandilón. Mexico City: Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer and Programa Salud Reproductiva y Sociedad, El Colegio de México, (2000).

The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Berkeley: University of California Press (1996).

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