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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 Monsivais.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Mexico--History--Congresses.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity--Mexico--History--Congresses.
- Feminism--Mexico--History--Congresses.
- Feminism.
- Sex role--Mexico--History--Congresses.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- When gender can't be seen amid the symbols : women and the Mexican Revolution / Carlos Monsivais
- 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" Fernandez / Julia Tunon
- "If love enslaves . . . love be damned!" Divorce and revolutionary state formation in Yucatan / 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 / Maria Teresa Fernandez-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.
- Notes:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780822388449
- 0822388448
- OCLC:
- 262328112
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