The “new masculinity”: Addiction treatment as a reconstruction of gender in Puerto Rican evangelist street ministries

► Introduces a view of intersectional masculinities in evangelical addiction ministries to challenge the concept of altering gender norms as a health intervention. ► Demonstrates the relationship between economic dislocation among working class men, power, domestic role and grassroots religious movements. ► Links economic dislocation, power, domesticity and religion back to gender and health in the form of narratives of masculinity and recovery from addiction.