A look into the masculine bachelorhood

Historically society has placed more attention on the unmarried woman as opposed to the unmarried male, which is reflected in the lack of research on male bachelorhood. This paper presents an analysis of the reason that gives professional men of medium socioeconomic level of Mexico about his singlen...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Gómez Ávila, Argelia, Salguero Velázquez, Alejandra
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2015
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositório:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/17874
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reflexiones/article/view/17874
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:soltería
masculinidad
pareja
compromiso
género
singleness
masculinity
couple
commitment
gender
Descrição
Resumo:Historically society has placed more attention on the unmarried woman as opposed to the unmarried male, which is reflected in the lack of research on male bachelorhood. This paper presents an analysis of the reason that gives professional men of medium socioeconomic level of Mexico about his singleness. We conducted a qualitative research, with semistructured interviews in seven participants between 32 and 49 years old. The data show that among the reasons to continue bachelor identifies three central arguments: the defense of freedom, the refusal to be economical provider, and the impact of loving rejections. Continued discussion if they are building new ways of being a man, if they can generate changes for the benefit of both genders, or his singleness be based on traditional stereotypes with modern dyes.