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."

Author: Gutmann, Matthew
Publisher: University of California Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Fixing Men
Pages: 00280 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2007-10-07
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780520252622
Category: Social Science : Anthropology - Cultural
Category: Psychology : Human Sexuality