The Effects of Hacienda Culture on the Gendered Division of Labor within the Charro Community.

This research examines how public performance and participation performance groups relate to gendered division of labor in the private sector within a particular Mexican subgroup. Literature on the gendered division of labor focuses on married couples but ignores men's social networks such as hypermasculine performance groups. This article will analyze Charro communities in Mexico. Charros, in this study, are Mexican urban horsemen that incorporate a rural or hacienda culture to both their public performances of masculinity, and those they perform within private households. Regardless of their exposure to urbanized gendered ideologies, Charro community members' traditional perceptions of gender coincide with those of hacienda culture. I conducted an ethnographic participatory observation and in-depth interviews with women and men of the Charro community. I analyzed the interactions between Charros, their performances, their practice sessions, and their personal lives and beliefs to consider how hacienda culture may produce particular views of gendered divisions of labor in the household. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]