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Bodies And Identities: Further Notes On Gendering The Mexican Revolution, Ageeth Sluis
Bodies And Identities: Further Notes On Gendering The Mexican Revolution, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
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Vea: Projecting Pornography In Mexico City, Transnational Bodies, And Acting Across The Sexual Frontier, Ageeth Sluis
Vea: Projecting Pornography In Mexico City, Transnational Bodies, And Acting Across The Sexual Frontier, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
This paper examines the articulation between the embodied city and changing gender norms in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, when the new state sought to reinvigorate and civilize Mexico City through urban reforms and public works. An analysis of the pornographic magazine Vea shows how views of "public women" were crucial to larger debates on gender and urbanization in Mexico City during the 1920s and 1930s. In the context of post World War I, a new, global ideal of the New Woman emerged through which women claimed both political and social mobility. Moreover, this ideology was articulated through a …
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.