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Against machismo : young adult voices in Mexico City / Josue Ramirez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramirez, Josué.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México--Students--Attitudes.
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
- Machismo--Mexico--Mexico City--Public opinion.
- Machismo.
- Young adults--Mexico--Mexico City--Attitudes.
- Young adults.
- Public opinion--Mexico--Mexico City.
- Public opinion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (154 p.)
- Other Title:
- Young adult voices in Mexico City
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on fieldwork conducted among middle-class university students primarily at the national university (UNAM) in Mexico City, this study explores gender relations as reflected in the words macho and machismo. The author concludes that the students use them to denote aspects of their families of origin that they consider unfavorable and aspects of the cultural past that they wish to leave behind in their own lives. In capturing the lively and revealing conversations of these young voices, the author offers a compelling analysis of how gender concepts and identities are changing in contemporar
- Contents:
- Introduction : Mexican middle-class young adults
- Talking change
- The chifladas of engineering
- Life charts and gender suffering
- Conflict narratives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [124]-126) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627477
- 9781282627475
- 1282627473
- 9781845458850
- 1845458850
- OCLC:
- 1316665421
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