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Projecting Pornography And Mapping Modernity In Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis
Projecting Pornography And Mapping Modernity In Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
Drawing on Elizabeth Grosz’s and Doreen Massey’s insights that place and gender are mutually constitutive, this article examines the articulation among the embodied city, sexual desire, and changing gender norms in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. At this time, a newly governing revolutionary elite sought to reinvigorate and “civilize” Mexico City through a series of urban reforms and public works, partly in response to their concern over women in public as a social problem. By analyzing depictions of female nudity as conversant with urban landscapes in the banned magazine Vea, the author argues that pornography connected Mexico City to …
Bataclanismo! Or, How Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis
Bataclanismo! Or, How Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
In the spring of 1925, Santa Anita's Festival of Flowers seemed to follow its tranquil trend of previous years. The large displays of flowers, the selection of indias bonitas (as the contestants of beauty pageants organized in an attempt to stimulate indigenism were known) and the boat-rides on the Viga Canal, all communicated what residents of neighboring Mexico City had come to expect of the small pueblo in the Federal District since the Porfiriato: the respite of a peaceful pastoral, the link to a colorful past, and the promise that mexicanidad was alive and well in the campo. Unfortunately, wrote …
Promis/Ciudad: Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Sexualizing Space, Ageeth Sluis
Promis/Ciudad: Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Sexualizing Space, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
No abstract provided.
Pornography, Female Spectacle And Modernity In Mexico City, 1915-1939, Ageeth Sluis
Pornography, Female Spectacle And Modernity In Mexico City, 1915-1939, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
No abstract provided.
Revistas Pornograficas Y La Modernidad Mundial En La Cuidad De México, 1920 -1940, Ageeth Sluis
Revistas Pornograficas Y La Modernidad Mundial En La Cuidad De México, 1920 -1940, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
No abstract provided.
From Diva To Deco Body: Visual Culture And The Daily Performance Of Gender In Mexico City, 1915-1935, Ageeth Sluis
From Diva To Deco Body: Visual Culture And The Daily Performance Of Gender In Mexico City, 1915-1935, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
No abstract provided.
Imagining La Capital: Photography And La Chica Moderna, Mexico City, 1933, Ageeth Sluis
Imagining La Capital: Photography And La Chica Moderna, Mexico City, 1933, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
No abstract provided.
X-Ray Of The Market: (En)Gendering Public Space In The Revolutionary City, Ageeth Sluis
X-Ray Of The Market: (En)Gendering Public Space In The Revolutionary City, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
No abstract provided.