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Comité Editorial, Maguaré (Colombia)

Consultant Editor, International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities

Manuscript/proposal reviewer: Addiction, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist , Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, Caribbean Studies, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Critique of Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Desacatos, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, Ethnos, Gay & Lesbian Quarterly, Human Organization, Identities, Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Latin American Research Review, Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Men & Masculinities, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Revista Antropológica, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Social Science & Medicine ; Allyn & Bacon, Berg, Blackwell, California, El Colegio de México, Duke, Prentice Hall.

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Member, International Advisory Committee, II Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Varones y Masculinidades, I Congreso Nacional de la Academia Mexicana de Estudios del Género de los Hombres: “Violencia: ¿El juego del hombre?” Guadalajara, Mexico

Co-Chair, Gender and Feminist Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association

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Breaking Ranks: Iraq Vets Speak Out Against the War.

Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico . Berkeley : University of California Press. In press.

The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press. [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9814.html]

Spanish edition with new Epilogue: El Romance de la democracia: Rebeldía sumisa en el Mexico contemporáneo. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. In press.

Reviewed in: American Anthropologist; American Journal of Sociology; The Americas; Antropologie et Societés; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Contemporary Sociology; International Review of Social History; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of San Diego History; Latin American Politics and Society; Latin American Research Review.

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

Reviewed in: Ahfad Journal; Journal of Gender Studies; NEWW/WEW Resource Net Friday File

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

Tenth Anniversary Edition with new “Preface.” Berkeley : University of California Press , pp. xv-xxviii, 2006. [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6688001.html]

Spanish edition: 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.

Reviewed in: Alteridades; American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; American Journal of Sociology; Antropologie et Societés; Australian Journal of Anthropology; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Contemporary Sociology; Desacatos; Gender & Society; Hispanic American Historical Review; Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences; Journal of Comparative Family Studies; Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of Men's Studies; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Latin American Research Review; Men & Masculinities; Social Forces; Southwestern American Literature.

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Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America . Durham , NC : Duke University Press. 2 nd printing.

Reviewed in: American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana; Contemporary Sociology; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of Marriage and the Family; Journal of the History of Sexuality; Latin American Research Review Luso-Brazilian Review; Men & Masculinities; Mesoamérica; Revista de Estudios Hispánicos; Signs.

Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation . With Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Lynn Stephen, and Patricia Zavella. Malden , MA : Blackwell Publishers. [http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631222952 &site=1]

Reviewed in: Centro Journal; Forum for Modern Language Studies; Journal of Latin American Studies.

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"Anthropología de las masculinidades." Guest editor with Federico Besserer of pecial issue of Alteridades
(Mexico ) 23.

“Fuentes culturales y ‘naturales' de la violencia masculina.” In Género, masculinidad y políticas públicas . Martha Castañeda and Patricia Ravelo, eds. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

“Questions Never Asked—Assumptions Never Questioned: Learning from Latin American Studies to Avoid Mistakes in Ethnic Studies.” With Jeffrey Lesser. In Ethnic Studies Encounters the Americas . Jennifer Roth-Gordon, José Itzigsohn, Josefina Saldaña, eds.

"To Protect the Vulnerable: Iraq-Era War Veterans Realizing their Manly Worth.” With Catherine A. Lutz.

“ Códices somáticos y disfraces masculinos, o, a quién le dan pan que llore.” In El cuerpo descifrado. Elsa Muñiz and Mauricio List Reyes, eds.

“The Missing Gamete? Ten Common Mistakes or Lies about Men's Sexual Destiny.” In Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction. Marcia Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helene Goldberg, and Maruska La Cour Mosegaard, eds. Oxford : Berghahn Books. In press.

“Epílogo” for Spanish edition of El romance de la democracia: Las políticas populares en el México contemporáneo . Mexico City : Fondo de Cultura Económica. In press.

“The Concealment of Public Space: Neoliberalism, AIDS, and the Regulation of Healing in Oaxaca .” In Public Space and Everyday Life in Urban Mexico . Gareth Jones, ed. London : Palgrave-MacMillan. In press.

Entries on “Anthropology, Theoretical Perspectives,” “Cultural Formations, Latin America ” (with Mara Viveros), “Machismo and Macho,” and “Mexican Masculinities.” International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Michael Flood, Judith K. Gardiner, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle, eds. London : Routledge. In press.

“Mexican Machos and Hombres.” In Key Issues and Debates in Latin American Anthropology: Social Movements, Mestizaje, Globalization, and the Politics of Representation. Miguel Díaz Barriga, ed. Malden , MA : Blackwell Publishers. In press.

“ Dominando el cuerpo varonil: Los impulsos sexuales y la salud reproductivamasculina .” La salud reproductiva masculina. Ana Amuchástegui and Ivonne Szasz, eds. Mexico City : El Colegio de México. In press.

Mexico : Fathers and Children” and “ Mexico : Urges and Affairs.” In Men of the Global South: A Reader. Adam Jones, ed. Pp. 28-32, 47-50. London : Zed Press. (Excerpted from chapters 3 and 5, The Meanings of Macho, 1996.)

“ Padres de Verdad : Fatherhood in Mexico City .” Sidebar in Families with Futures: A Survey of Family Studies for the Twenty-first Century . Meg W. Karraker and Janet R. Grochowski. Pp. 291-92. New York : Lawrence Erlbaum.

“La ‘falocedad' de continuos: Salud reproductiva entre adolescentes en Oaxaca de Juárez.” Estudios Sociales (Hermosillo, Mexico) 26:117-43.

Spanish edition: “Masculinidades en América Latina.” Tratado de psicología social . Miguel Angel Aguilar and Anne Reid, eds. Barcelona : Anthropos. 2007. In press.

Entry on “Machismo.” New Dictionary of the History of Ideas . With Gloria González-López. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed. Pp. 1328-30. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.

Spanish version in Revista de las fronteras (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico). 2007. In press.

“Los hombres de abandono y los hogares como zonas fronterizas en la ciudad de México.” Debate feminista ( Mexico City ). In press.

“Dystopian Travels in Gringolandia: Engendering Ethnicity among Mexican Migrants t o the United States.” Ethnicities 4(4):477-500.

Entry on “Machismo.” In Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities . Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson, eds. Pp. 478-80. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.

“Iniciación sexual y salud reproductiva entre adolescentes en Oaxaca de Juárez, México.” In Varones adolescentes: Género, identidades y sexualidades en América Latina . José Olavarría, ed. Pp. 153-64. Santiago : Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales.

"Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America." Introduction to Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann, ed. Pp. 1-26. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

“ Presentación: Antropología de las masculinidades. ” Alteridades ( Mexico City ). With Federico Besserer 23:3-4.

“La politique populaire a-t-elle un genre? Un exemple mexicain.” Cahiers des Ameriques Latines (Paris) 39:109-26.

“‘Men-streaming' Gender? Questions for Gender and Development Policy in the 21st Century.” With Sylvia Chant. Progress in Development Studies 2(4):269- 82.

[Excerpted version in Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism . Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds. Pp. 240-49. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005.]

"Viajes no utópicos en Gringolandia: Los migrantes mexicanos como pioneros de cambios culturales globales." In Fronteras Fragmentadas. Gail Mummert, ed. Pp. 573-84. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán.

[English version: "Dystopian Travels in Gringolandia: Mexican Migrants and the Subversion of Gender Categories." Working Paper #00-02-A. Center for Migration & Development, Princeton University. (http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/cmd0002a.pdf). 2000.]

"Mamitis and the Traumas of Development in a Colonia Popular of Mexico City." In Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Pp. 130-48. Berkeley: University of California Press.
[Spanish version: "Mamitis y los traumas del desarrollo en una colonia popular de la ciudad de México." In Paternidades en América Latina. Norma Fuller, ed. Pp. 333-59. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Fondo Editorial. 2000.]
[Revised English version in Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives, Dorothy L. Hodgson, ed. Pp. 149-72. New York: Palgrave. 2001.]

"For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Responses to NAFTA South of the Border." Critique of Anthropology 18(3):297-315.
[Spanish version: "Por quién doblan las campanas de Taco Bell: Respuestas populares al TLC al sur de la frontera." Alteridades (Mexico City) 10:109-22. 2000.]
[English version reprinted in Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Matthew C. Gutmann, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Lynn Stephen, and Patricia Zavella, eds. Pp. 404-17. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. 2003.]

"The Ethnographic (G)Ambit: Women and the Negotiation of Masculinity in Mexico City." American Ethnologist 24(4):833-55.
[Partial Spanish version: "Las fronteras corporales de género: Las mujeres en la negociación de la masculinidad." In Cuerpo, diferencias y desigualdades. Mara Viveros and Gloria Garay, eds. Pp. 105-123. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 1999.] (http://www.plazamayor.net/antropologia/genero/articulos.html)
[Partial Spanish version: "El (g)ámbito etnográfico: Las mujeres en la negociación de la masculinidad." In Discurso, sociedad y lenguaje: Una anamorfosis en el nuevo milenio. Bob Hodge, Rose Lema, and Hans Saettele, eds. Munchen: Lincom Studies in Pragmatics. 2002.]

"Trafficking in Men: The Anthropology of Masculinity." Annual Review of Anthropology 26:385-409.
[Spanish version: "Traficando con hombres: La antropología de la masculinidad." La Ventana (Guadalajara) 8:47-99. 1998.]
[Revised Spanish version, Horizontes Antropológicos (Porto Alegre) 10:245-86. 1999.]
[Spanish version in Etica: Masculinidades y feminidades. Angela Inés Robledo and YolandaPuyana, eds. Pp. 177-227. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2000.]

"Los hombres cambiantes, los machos impenitentes y las relaciones de género en México en los noventa." Estudios Sociológicos (Mexico City) Vol. XI, No. 33, pp. 725-40.
[English version: "The Meanings of Macho: Changing Mexican Male Identities." masculinities 2(1):21-33. 1994.]
[English version reprinted in Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, and Patricia Zavella, eds. Pp. 223-234. New York: Routledge, 1997.]
[English version reprinted in Perspectives: Race and Ethnicity. Amber Ault, ed. Pp. 99-106. Madison, WI: Coursewise Publishing, Inc., 1999.]

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Review of Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology , by Richard A. Schweder. American Anthropologist 107(1). In press.

Review of Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories , by Leslie Salzinger. Journal of Latin American Studies 36(3):625-26.

Review of Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development . Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, and Priya Kurian, eds. American Journal of Sociology 109(6):1514-16.

Review of Gender's Place: Feminist Antropologies of Latin America , edited by Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier, and Janise Hurtig. The Americas 60(2):275-76.

Spanish version, “Para ubicar el género.” Debate feminista (Mexico) 14:357-59, 2003 .

Review The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS , by Héctor Carrillo. Journal of Latin American Studies 35(4):788-80.

Review of G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire , by Katherine Frank. Journal of Anthropological Research 59:421-23.

Review of The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America , by Gareth Williams. The Americas 60(1):145-47.

Review of Making Sense of Men's Magazines , by Peter Jackson, Nick Stevenson, and Kate Brooks. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 28(1):125-26.

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Translation of "Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity," by Mara Viveros Vigoya. With María Elena García. Men & Masculinities 3(3):237-60.

Revised version reprinted in Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann, ed. Pp. 27-57. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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“La sangre mexicana: Ciudadanía democrática, servicio militar y otras fantasías políticas.” Invited plenary address, VII Reunião de Antropologia Mercosul, Porto Alegre , Brazil ; 23-26 July.

Organizer, panel on “Crossing Family and Citizenship Borders in Greater Mexico.” 105 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose , CA ; 15-19 November. (Panel accepted; I was unable to attend.)

“El laberinto del petate: Historias recientes del sexo en México.” 52 nd Congreso de Americanistas, Sevilla; 17-21 July.

Co-organizer with Elsa Muñiz and Mauricio List, “Del cuerpo global a las variaciones culturales del cuerpo.” 52nd Congreso de Americanistas, Sevilla; 17-21 July.

“The Concealment of Public Space: Neoliberalism, AIDS, and the Regulation of Healing in Oaxaca.” Society for North American Anthropology, Mérida; 3-8 May. (Originally accepted for 103 rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco; 17-21 November.)

Co-organizer, " Low-Tech/High-Tech: From Barefoot Doctors to Protease Inhibitors.” Society for North American Anthropology, Mérida; 3-8 May. (Originally accepted for 103 rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco; 17-21 November.)

“Fuera de Control: Masculine Heterosexualities in Mexico.” Invited lecture to mark the 10 th Anniversary of the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs; 8 April.

Co-organizer, “Representations of Misery: What Is to Be Done?” Invited session, 103 rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco; 17-21 November. (Session cancelled with collapse of AAA 2004.)

“Really? You Never Believe in God?: In Honor of Stanley Brandes.” 103 rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco; 17-21 November. (Ad hoc session following collapse of AAA 2004.)

“Western Reproductive Health and Medicina Tradicional in Oaxaca.” New England Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Boston University; 6 November.

“El laberinto del petate: Historias recientes del sexo en México.” XXV Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas; 7-9 October.

Co-Organizer, double-session, “ Sexuality, Equality and Reproductive Health: The Case of Mexico .” XXV Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas; 7-9 October.

“La perspectiva antropológica sobre los varones: Naturaleza y cultura.” Invited presentation, Secretaría de Salud, Juchitán, Mexico; 27 July.

“Frisky and Risky Totems: Medicalizing Male (Hetero)Sexuality in Oaxaca, Mexico.” Invited presentation, symposium on “Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World.” Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; 30 April-1 May.

“Códices somáticos y disfraces masculinos, o, a quién le dan pan que llore.” Invited lecture, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; 2 April.

“Homens: Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva.” Invited lecture, Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; 30 March.

“The Concealment of Public Space: Neoliberalism, AIDS, and the Regulation of Healing in Oaxaca.” Invited presentation, “The End of Public Space in the Latin American City?” Mexican Center, University of Texas, Austin; 4-5 March.

Commentator, conference on “ The Political and Symbolic Implications of Quantification.” Brown University; 26-28 February.

“El romance de la democracia: Apreciación popular de la política y formas de participación.” Invited lecture, Conference Doctorale de l'Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle; 13 January.

“Códices somáticos y disfraces masculinos, o, a quién le dan pan que llore.” Invited lecture, Séminaire d'Anthropologie Américaniste, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; 9 January.

“The Wednesday Morning Prayer Meeting: Dying for AIDS in Oaxaca.” Invited session, 102 nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago; 19-23 November.

Discussant, “Emotional States: Passion, Politics and the Ethnography of State-Making in Latin America.” 102 nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago; 19-23 November.

“Códices somáticos y disfraces masculinos, o, a quién le dan pan que llore.” Invited keynote, Congreso Internacional de Ciencias, Artes y Humanidades sobre ‘El Cuerpo Descifrado,' Mexico City; 28-31 October.

“Salud reproductiva masculina, vasectomía y SIDA.” Inivited lecture, Centro de Estudios de Género and Facultad de Antropología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla; 29 October.

“La ‘etnicidad' de la violencia masculina y el machismo: Estudios de caso de Juarez, Mexico y Oaxaca.” Inivited lecture, Instututo para el Desarrollo de la Cultura Maya del Estado de Yucatán and Instituto para la Equidad de Género de Yucatán, Mérida; 27 October.

“Hoping Those with AIDS Stay Away: Funding Health Care in Oaxaca.” New England Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Dartmouth College; 18 October.

“Diez burros y un genio: Los ritos genéricos del voto en México democratizando.” Invited lecture, Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca; 16 July.

“ Fuentes culturales y ‘naturales' de la violencia masculina .” Invited keynote, Diplomado Internacional: Género, Masculinidad y Políticas Públicas. Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, University of Texas–El Paso, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuidad Juárez; 6-7 June.

Hombres carnales: Las políticas somáticas de la salud reproductiva masculina.” Invited lecture, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá; 30 May.

“Perspectivas actuales en la antropología norteamericana y anglosajona.” Invited seminar, Maestría en Antropología Social, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá; 29 May.

“Frisky and Risky Men: Sexual Needs and AIDS in Oaxaca de Juárez.” American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, Providence ; 24-26 April.

Co-organizer, panel on “Of Whores, Embryos, Marked Women, and Frisky Men.” American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, Providence ; 24-26 April

“Frisky and Risky Men: Sexual Needs, HIV, and Wednesday Morning Prayer Meetings.” Invited lecture, Working Group on Anthropology and Population, Brown University ; 18 April.

Chair, roundtable on “Ethnic Studies in the Wider Americas,” conference on Race, Globalization, and the New Ethnic Studies, Brown University ; 7-9 March.

“Scoring Men: Vasectomy and Birth Control Decision-Making in Oaxaca , Mexico .” Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, Emory University ; 3 March.

“Los hombres frente al machismo.” Invited roundtable, Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 19 February.