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Vea: Projecting Pornography In Mexico City, Transnational Bodies, And Acting Across The Sexual Frontier, Ageeth Sluis Sep 2007

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 …


Connections Between East Africa And India Over 8,000 Years, Jesse Benjamin May 2007

Connections Between East Africa And India Over 8,000 Years, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Asana To America: The Advent Of Yoga In The West, M. Popovic, Don Morrow Apr 2007

Asana To America: The Advent Of Yoga In The West, M. Popovic, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.


The Summit Series: Iconic Cornucopia Of Canadian Cultural Values, Don Morrow Mar 2007

The Summit Series: Iconic Cornucopia Of Canadian Cultural Values, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.


“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas Dec 2006

“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas

Lynnell Thomas

This article explores the connections between New Orleans’s late 20th-century tourism representations and the mainstream media coverage and national images of the city immediately following Hurricane Katrina. It pays particular attention to the ways that race and class are employed in both instances to create and perpetuate a distorted sense of place that ignore the historical and contemporary realities of the city’s African American population.


From ‘Bolshevik Hall’ To Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation Of South Norwood’S Lithuanian Hall, Patricia Fanning Dec 2006

From ‘Bolshevik Hall’ To Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation Of South Norwood’S Lithuanian Hall, Patricia Fanning

Patricia J. Fanning

No abstract provided.


Canadian Sport In Historical Perspective, Donald Morrow Dec 2006

Canadian Sport In Historical Perspective, Donald Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.