Sex in revolution : gender, politics, and power in modern Mexico

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Sex in revolution : gender, politics, and power in modern Mexico

edited by Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano ; foreword by Carlos Monsiváis

Duke University Press, 2006

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  • : pbk

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Papers originally presented at a conference "Las Olvidadas: Gender and Women's History in Postrevolutionary Mexico," held at Yale University in May 2001

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-301) and index

"Latin American history / Women's studies"--Back cover

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内容説明

Sex in Revolution challenges the prevailing narratives of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation by placing women at center stage. Bringing to bear decades of feminist scholarship and cultural approaches to Mexican history, the essays in this book demonstrate how women seized opportunities created by modernization efforts and revolutionary upheaval to challenge conventions of sexuality, work, family life, religious practices, and civil rights.Concentrating on episodes and phenomena that occurred between 1915 and 1950, the contributors deftly render experiences ranging from those of a transgendered 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 preparing for 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 postrevolutionary 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 postrevolutionary societies, offering a critical comparative perspective. Contributors. Ann S. Blum, Kristina A. Boylan, Gabriela Cano, Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, Heather Fowler-Salamini, Susan Gauss, Temma Kaplan, Carlos Monsivais, Jocelyn Olcott, Anne Rubenstein, Patience Schell, Stephanie Smith, Lynn Stephen, Julia Tunon, Mary Kay Vaughan

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Acknowledgments ix Foreword: When Gender Can't Be Seen amid the Symbols: Women and the Mexican Revolution / Carlos Monsivaois 1 Introduction: Pancho Villa, the Daughters of Mary, and the Modern Woman: Gender in the Long Mexican Revolution / Mary Kay Vaughan 21 Part One: Embodying Revolutionary Culture Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Amelio Robles's (Transgender) Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution / Gabriela Cano 35 The War on Las Pelonas: Modern Women and Their Enemies, Mexico City, 1924 / Anne Rubenstein 57 Femininity, Indigneismo, and Nation: Film Representation by Emilio "El Indio: Fernandez / Julia Tunon 81 Part Two: Reshaping the Domestic Sphere "In Love Enslaves...Love Ber Damned!": Divorce and Revolutionary State Formation in Yucatan / Stephanie Smith 99 Gender, Class, and Anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational School, Revolutionary Mexico City / Patience A. Schell 112 Breaking and Making Families: Adoption and Public Welfare, Mexico City, 1938-1942, Ann S. Blum 127 Part Three: The Gendered Realm of Labor Organizing The Struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920-1940 / Maria Teresa Fernandez-Aveces Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class Women's Culture in Post-Revolution Veracruz / Heather Fowler-Salamini 162 Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry In Postrevolutionary Puebla / Susan M. Gauss 181 Part Four: Women and Revolutionary Politics Gendering the Faith and Altering the Nation: Mexican Catholic Women's Activism, 1917-1940 / Kristina A. Boylan 199 The Center Cannot Hold: Women on Mexico's Popular Front / Jocelyn Olcott 225 Epilogue. Rural Women's Grassroots Activism, 1980-2000: Reframing the Nation from Below / Lynn Stephen 241 Final Reflections: Gender, Chaos, and Authority in Revolutionary Times / Temma Kaplan 261 Bibliography 277 Contributors 303 Index 307

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