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Working women in Mexico City : public discourses and material conditions, 1879-1931 / Susie S. Porter.
Lippincott Library HD6101.Z6 M446 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Susie S., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
- Women.
- Industrialization--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
- Industrialization.
- History.
- Women--Employment.
- Mexico City (Mexico)--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Mexico City (Mexico).
- Mexico City (Mexico)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Mexico--Mexico City.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Women in metropolitan industrialization
- "She has moved beyond her sphere" : discursive constructions of working women
- "Moral and material suffering" : protest and power, 1880-1911
- Inclusive marginalization, 1911-1930
- "Poor yet honorable people" : worker response to the gendering of the workplace
- "And that it is custom makes it law" : vendedoras in the public sphere
- Working women and the state, 1879-1931.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0816522685
- OCLC:
- 52070908
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