Buch
Monografie
Sex in revolution : gender, politics, and power in modern Mexico
Herausgegeben von:
Olcott, Jocelyn
Durham, NC [u. a.]:
Duke Univ. Press
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2006
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320 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Olcott, Jocelyn |
| Jahr: | 2006 |
| ISBN: | 082233884X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| In this anthology the Mexican Revolution is analysed from a gendered point of view. The writers place women on central stage. The essays show that women seized opportunities created by modernization efforts and revolutionary upheaval to challenge conventions of sexuality, work, family life, religious practices, and civil rights. The essays concentrate on the time between 1915 and 1950. The contributors render experiences ranging from those of a trans-gendered Zapatista soldier to upright damas catolicas and Mexico City's chicas modernas pilloried by the press and male students. Women refashioned their lives by seeking relief from bad marriages through divorce courts and new employment opportunities through vocational education. Activists ranging from Catholics to Communists mobilized for political and social rights. Although forced to compromise in the face of fierce opposition, these women made an indelible imprint on post-revolutionary society. These essays illuminate emerging practices of femininity and masculinity, stressing the formation of subjectivity through civil-society mobilizations, spectatorship and entertainment, and locales such as workplaces, schools, churches, and homes. The volume's epilogue examines how second-wave feminism catalyzed this revolutionary legacy, sparking widespread, more radically egalitarian rural women's organizing in the wake of late-twentieth-century democratization campaigns. The conclusion considers the Mexican experience alongside those of other post-revolutionary societies, offering a critical comparative perspective. Foreword: Carlos Monsiváis: When Gender Cant eBe Seen amid the Symbols: Women and the Mexican Revolution (S. 1); Introduction: Mary Kay Vaughan: Pancho Villa, the Daughters of Mary, and the Modern Woman: Gender in the Long Mexican Revolution (S. 21); I. Embodying Revolutionary Culture: Gabriela Cano: Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Amelio Robless (Transgender) Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution (S. 35); Anne Rubenstein: The War on Las Pelonas: Modern Women and Their Enemies, Mexico City, 1924 (S. 57); Julia Tunon: Femininity, Indigneismo, and Nation: Film Representation by Emilio El Indio: Fernandez (S. 81); II. Reshaping the Domestic Sphere: Stephanie Smith: In Love Enslaves ... Love Ber Damned!: Divorce and Revolutionary State Formation in Yucatan (S. 99); Patience A. Schell: Gender, Class, and Anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational School, Revolutionary Mexico City (S. 112); Ann S. Blum: Breaking and Making Families: Adoption and Public Welfare, Mexico City, 1938-1942 (S. 127); III. Maria Teresa Fernandez-Aveces: The Gendered Realm of Labor Organizing The Struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920-1940 (S. 147); Heather Fowler-Salamini: Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class Womens Culture in Post-Revolution Veracruz (S. 162); Susan M. Gauss: Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry In Postrevolutionary Puebla (S. 181): IV. Women and Revolutionary Politics: Kristina A. Boylan: Gendering the Faith and Altering the Nation: Mexican Catholic Womens Activism, 1917-1940 (S. 199); Jocelyn Olcott: The Center Cannot Hold: Women on Mexicos Popular Front (S. 225); Epilogue: Lynn Stephen: Rural Womens Grassroots Activism, 1980-2000: Reframing the Nation from Below (S. 241); Temma Kaplan: Final Reflections: Gender, Chaos, and Authority in Revolutionary Times (S. 261) | |
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