Emily A. Wentzell

Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on interviews with male patients in a urology clinic in Cuernavaca, Maturing Masculinities offers an exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR
• New
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822354918
• ISBN-10: 0822354918
• Artikelnr.: 37185010

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Changing Bodies and Masculinities in Post-Viagra Mexico 1
1. Mexicanness, Machismo, and Maturity in Composite Masculinities 35
2. Sex, Relationships, and Masculinities 60
3. Chronic Illnesses as Composite Problems 86
4. Rejecting Erectile Dysfunction Drugs 110
5. Medical Erectile Dysfunction Treatment in Context 136
Conclusion. Cultural Change Over Time in Responses to Erectile Difficulty
162
Bibliography 187
Index 197