Abstract

GONZALEZ MORENO, Maria Cristina  and  CAMACARO GOMEZ, Daisy. Retracing the routes of masculinity. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.1, pp.68-78. ISSN 1690-3293.

This paper attempts to develop specific aspects depending on the understanding of a subject that today occupies an important place in gender-sensitive research: Studies on masculinities. Women from the appearance of the first feminist movement in the eighteenth century, have given a hundred steps forward in pursuit of its visibility and recognition. The men were embraced in his trench patriarchal. Shyly peeking over time, have begun to retrace the routes of masculinity. It is from the seventies, when men begin to think of themselves thanks to the influence of the feminist movement, who from different ideological trenches, allowed to breathe a thought opposite ilussio call manly. Springing a series of questions about social inequities suffered by virtue of being men. With the incorporation of gender within feminist discussion, there has been an interesting epistemological break with essentialist thinking - universalism. Gender as a theoretical construct questions the relationship nature / culture and the whole vision of the feminine as well as masculine exclusively derived from biological sex. Develop aspects of the crisis of masculinity. It addresses the critical problems that has faced masculinity in the process of identity construction and deconstruction

Keywords : Masculinity; patriarchy; gender Development models.