Mujeres en Mexico: Una Historia Olvidada

Name: Mujeres en Mexico: Una Historia Olvidada
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ISBN: 9780292781610

ISBN-10: 029278161X

ISBN-13: 9780292781610

Edition: 1999

Authors: Julia Tuï¿½ï¿½n Pablos, Alan Hynds, Julia Tuñón Pablos

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Throughout Mexico' history, women have been subjected to a dual standard: exalted in myth, they remain subordinated in their social role by their biology. But this dualism is not so much a battle between the sexes as the product of a social system. The injustices of this system have led Mexican women to conclude that they deserve a better world, one worth struggling for. Published originally in Spanish as Mujeres en Meacute;xico: Una historia olvidada , this work examines the role of Mexican women from pre-Corteacute;s to the 1980s, addressing the interplay between myth and history and the gap between theory and practice. Pointing to such varied prototypes as the Virgin of Guadalupe, La…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Julia Tuï¿½ï¿½n Pablos teaches at the Direcciï¿½n de Estudios Histï¿½ricos of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologï¿½a e Historia in Mexico City.



Preface


Introduction: Women in Mexico: Between the Mirror and the Mirage



Women in the Mexica World: The Dilemma: Eternal Goddesses or Mortal Women?



Women in New Spain: The End of One World and the Shaping of Another



Mexican Women in the Nineteenth Century: Idols of Bronze or Inspiration of the Home?



Peace in Porfirian Times: In the Maelstrom of "Progress"



From Revolution to Stability



From "Development" to Crisis


Conclusion: The Temptation to Exist


Notes


References


Index


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