Masculinities in Cuba: Description and Analysis of a Case Study from a Gender Perspective

Abstract

This study aims to deepen our discussion about Cuban men´s current perception about hegemonic masculinity, based on an extensive literary review and a survey focusing on 125 males who attend a Mental Health Center in Havana. Using gender as a concept and category to unravel the relations between sexual difference and inequality, the authors present the results of their descriptive and transversal research, designed to address multiple cases, from a qualitative methodological perspective (QMP method) and compare them with other findings, especially from Latin America. The research techniques applied, expose how the patriarchal culture continues imposing a burden on the minds of many Cuban men, while they also exhibit the rise of a new generation which enjoys a less genitalist sexuality, willing to sharing their new outlook and beginning to manifest a liberating and positive distance from machismo.

Keywords

• Gender
• Masculinity in Cuba
• Hegemonic Masculinity
• Machismo
• Types of masculinities.