El trabajo sin retiro: experiencias de nacer y envejecer en el campo

Abstract

Studies about social construction of masculinity have revealed how a series of identities that are learned and embodied in the bodies and daily practices among men are formed from birth to adulthood, However, when these gender learnings in old age are questioned, theoretical and empirical gaps are found about it. Until now, being a man in old age has been little questioned, as well as how the heterogeneity of the contexts reproduces experiences of masculinity or how at this stage there are losses, ruptures, transitions and / or permanence of who they were, who they are and who they try to be. This article aims to show how in a rural context from Morelos-Mexico, the men who were born and aged in that countryside, learned how to be men. To get the stories, they worked with the biographical method, from their voices they tell the rites of passage and the demands of othermen to move from childhood to adulthood, restricting the stage of game, affectivity and imagination; perpetuating the masculine codes of responsibility, supply and authority, which are translated into loneliness and silence during old age.