| Description |
1 online resource (x, 320 pages) |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
When gender can't be seen amid the symbols : women and the Mexican Revolution / Carlos Monsiváis -- Pancho Villa, the Daughters of Mary, and the modern woman : gender in the long Mexican Revolution / Mary Kay Vaughan -- Unconcealable realities of desire : Amelio Robles's (transgender) masculinity in the Mexican Revolution / Gabriela Cano -- The war on Las Pelonas : modern women and their enemies, Mexico City, 1924 / Anne Rubenstein -- Femininity, indigenismo, and nation : film representation by Emilio "El Indio" Fernández / Julia Tuñón -- "If love enslaves ... love be damned!" Divorce and revolutionary state formation in Yucatán / Stephanie Smith -- Gender, class, and anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational School, revolutionary Mexico City / Patience A. Schell -- Breaking and making families : adoption and public welfare, Mexico City, 1938-1942 / Ann S. Blum -- The struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920-1940 / María Teresa Fernández-Aceves -- Gender, work, trade unionism, and working-class women's culture in post-revolutionary Veracruz / Heather Fowler-Salamini -- Working-class masculinity and the rationalized sex : gender and industrial modernization in the textile industry in postrevolutionary Puebla / Susan M. Gauss -- Gendering the faith and altering the nation : Mexican Catholic women's activism, 1917-1940 / Kristina A. Boylan -- The center cannot hold : women on Mexico's popular front / Jocelyn Olcott -- Epilogue : Rural women's grassroots activism, 1980-2000 : reframing the nation from below / Lynn Stephen -- Final reflections : gender, chaos, and authority in revolutionary times / Temma Kaplan |
| Summary |
A collection of histories showing how women participated in Mexican revolutionary and postrevolutionary state formation by challenging conventions of sexuality, work, family life, and religious practice |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at a conference "Las Olvidadas: Gender and Women's History in Postrevolutionary Mexico," held at Yale University in May 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses
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Women -- Political activity -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses
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Feminism -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses
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Sex role -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism
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Sex role
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Women
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Women -- Political activity
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olcott, Jocelyn, 1970-
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Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-
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Cano, Gabriela.
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| ISBN |
9780822388449 |
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0822388448 |
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