matthew gutmann Phone: (401) 863-7732
Office: 105 Giddings House
email: Matthew_Gutmann@brown.eduTitle: Associate Professor, Anthropology
Background:Matthew C. Gutmann joined the Department of Anthropology at Brown University in August 1997. He received an AB in Oriental Languages (1975), a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology (1995), and an M.P.H (1997) all from the University of California, Berkeley. He received dissertation fellowship support from Fulbright-Hays, NSF, NIMH, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and post-doc support from the NIAAA.
Research Interests:
Change, particularly that related to gender, ethnicity, and health in the Americas (especially in Mexico and among Latinos in the United States).
Current Research:
Gutmann began research in 2001 on men’s reproductive health and sexuality in Oaxaca, Mexico. Funded initially by sabbatical leave and a National Endowment for the Humanities University Fellowship, this ethnographic fieldwork to date has been conducted primarily in two vasectomy clinics and the state-run AIDS clinic in Oaxaca. He is examining decisions about birth control and AIDS in this mountainous region 300 miles south of the capital, as part of understanding widespread disparities and inequalities in health care services in general, the medicalization of male bodies, and the intersection between ideas about modernity and reproductive and sexual well-being..
Selected Publications:
2007. Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2003. Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America. Editor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2003. Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Co-editor with Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Lynn Stephen, and Patricia Zavella. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
2002. The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2000. Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development: Debates, Reflections, and Experiences. Co-author with Sylvia Chant. Oxford: Oxfam.
1996. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Berkeley: University of California Press.