Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán women & the realities of patriarchy
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1. Verfasser: Smith, Stephanie J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Women and the radical revolutionary laboratory -- Redefining women : the making of a revolution -- Broken promises, broken hearts : the revolutionary judicial system -- Honor and morality : the church, the state, and the control of Yucatecan families -- If love enslaves-- love be damned! : divorce and revolutionary state formation in Yucatán -- Women in public and public women : prostitutes in revolutionary Yucatán
The state of Yucatán is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Smith says that despite the intervention of women at many levels of Yucatecan society, the rigid definition of women's social roles as strictly that of wives and mothers within the Mexican nation guaranteed that long-term, substantial gains remained out of reach for most women for years to come
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 257 pages)
ISBN:0807888664
9780807888667

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