Now I Am a Man and a Woman

Gendered Moves and Migrations in a Transnational Mexican Community

Bibliographic Data

ID4501402
AuthorsDeborah A Boehm (University of Nevada, Reno, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue1
Pages16-30
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x07310843
OpenAlexW2068749061
LanguageEN
Citations received52
References cited24

Scholars have suggested that migration from Mexico to the United States benefits women by challenging often rigid gender norms. The results of ethnographic field research in San Luis Potosí and New Mexico complicate this view. Here migration results in a complex interplay between males and females-a series of negotiations through which women exercise increased autonomy in some circumstances but also face the reassertion of male dominance and in which males reproduce patriarchal power even as they create new ways to express masculinity. This research problematizes previous understandings of the impact of migration on gender roles and underscores the need to make a gendered analysis central to theories of transnationalism and the study of (im)migration

Autonomy · Dominance (genetics) · Ethnography · Field (mathematics) · Gender relations · Masculinity · Negotiation · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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