Vaughan / Cano / Olcott Sex in Revolution

Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8844-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaughan, Mary Kay

Cano, Gabriela

Olcott, Jocelyn H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jocelyn Olcott is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, also published by Duke University Press.

Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her books include Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1920–1940 and (with Stephen E. Lewis) The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940, also published by Duke University Press.

Gabriela Cano is Professor of History at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is a coeditor of the multivolume Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina.