Resumen

TOVA¹, Marianela. Discipline and Control: The Manuals on Urbanity and the Construction of Masculine Hegemony in Late-19th Century Venezuela. Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.3, pp.179-193. ISSN 20030507.

Abstract This article examines the construction of masculine hegemony in Venezuela between 1871 and 1884. The period has been chosen because it coincides with a national project of modernization promoted by the Caracas political elite, headed by Antonio Guzmán Blanco. In relation to everyday life, this meant converting the inhabitants of the city into modern citizens, by way of a normative discourse which sought changes in conduct, a new civilizing discipline of both the body and the mind. This task was not assumed directly by the State, but by an urban middle class anxious to adopt the norms they considered appropriate to a bourgeoisie in power. The author examines the way in which the different manuals on urbanity served not only to discipline the children and adolescents of the urban middle classes, but also as an instrument for consolidating the model of masculine hegemony

Palabras clave : Masculine Hegemony; Modernization; Manual on Urbanity; Venezuela.