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Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity

Author : Pilar Melero
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349567256

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Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity by Pilar Melero Pdf

Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For the first time, Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political, cultural, and literary context of early twentieth century Mexico.

Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity

Author : Pilar Melero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137502957

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Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity by Pilar Melero Pdf

Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For the first time, Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political, cultural, and literary context of early twentieth century Mexico.

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Author : Kelly Lytle Hernández
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324004387

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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize • One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • A Kirkus Best World History Book of 2022 One of Smithsonian's 10 Best History Books of 2022 • Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History prize • Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI’s first cases. But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world’s first social revolution of the twentieth century. Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas’ story integral to modern American life.

From Angel to Office Worker

Author : Susie S. Porter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496204219

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From Angel to Office Worker by Susie S. Porter Pdf

To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment

Latina Histories and Cultures

Author : Montse Feu,Yolanda Padilla
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781518507601

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Latina Histories and Cultures by Montse Feu,Yolanda Padilla Pdf

This collection of academic essays introduces new research on Latina histories and cultures from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980. Examining a wide range of source materials, including personal and institutional archives, literature and oral history, the authors of the fifteen articles use transnational approaches and Latina feminist theory to remind us of a principle that is still too often forgotten: that sex and gender should be centered as crucial problematics in the study of the long history of Latina/o/x literature and culture. Applying an intersectional methodology that analyzes gender in relation to numerous identities—race, class, sexuality, language and nationality—the scholars explore diverse subjects such as the literary work of historical Latina authors Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Maria Cristina Mena; the travails of Basque women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and Chicana activism in Wyoming in the 1970s and 1980s. The book is divided into four sections: Feminist Readings of Latina Authors; Gender, Politics and Power in the Spanish-Language Press; Radical Latinas’ Politics; and Reclaiming Community, Reclaiming Knowledge. In their introduction, editors Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla map significant elements in the practice of Latina feminist recovery and suggest the importance of using queer studies frameworks and speculative approaches to archives in order to amplify queer, Afro-Latina/o and indigenous voices. Published as part of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, Latina Histories and Cultures continues the efforts to rescue the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States and will be required reading for academics and students in a variety of disciplines.

Transitions Out of Crime

Author : Catalina Droppelmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000515633

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Transitions Out of Crime by Catalina Droppelmann Pdf

This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country. Offering an intercultural dialogue with mainstream explanations, Transitions Out of Crime analyses the transition from crime to conformity among a group of Chilean juvenile offenders. Desistance from crime is not just the cessation of criminal activity itself, but a process of acquiring roles, identities, and virtues; of developing new social ties, and of inhabiting new spaces. This book offers new evidence that shows that the traditional binary between the ‘reformed desister’ and the ‘anti-social persister’ is inaccurate and that the road to desistance contains various oscillations between crime and conformity. Furthermore, this study shows the role that gender plays in shaping, limiting and structuring pathways away from crime. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to those engaged in criminology, sociology, penology, desistance, rehabilitation, gender studies and all those interested in the transition from crime to conformity outside the Anglo-American orthodoxy.

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816545018

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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

"Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary TV by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go"--

Mestiza Rhetorics

Author : Jessica Enoch,Cristina Devereaux Ramirez
Publisher : Studies in Rhetorics and Femin
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809337408

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Mestiza Rhetorics by Jessica Enoch,Cristina Devereaux Ramirez Pdf

"This book collects and contextualizes thirty-three primary writings of understudies yet revolutionary Mexicana rhetors and social activists that were originally published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Spanish-language presses in Mexico and the United States"--

For a Just and Better World

Author : Sonia Hernandez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052989

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For a Just and Better World by Sonia Hernandez Pdf

Caritina Piña Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Piña and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor broker, Piña never left her native Tamaulipas. Yet she excelled in connecting groups in the United States and Mexico. Her story explains the conditions that led to anarcho-syndicalism's rise as a tool to achieve labor and gender equity. It also reveals how women's ideas and expressions of feminist beliefs informed their experiences as leaders in and members of the labor movement. A vivid look at a radical activist and her times, For a Just and Better World illuminates the lives and work of Mexican women battling for labor rights and gender equality in the early twentieth century.

Collective Biologies

Author : Emily A. Wentzell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022176

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Collective Biologies by Emily A. Wentzell Pdf

In Collective Biologies, Emily A. Wentzell uses sexual health research participation as a case study for investigating the use of individual health behaviors to aid groups facing crisis and change. Wentzell analyzes couples' experiences of a longitudinal study of HPV occurrence in men in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She observes how their experiences reflected Mexican cultural understandings of group belonging through categories like family and race. For instance, partners drew on collective rather than individualistic understandings of biology to hope that men's performance of “modern” masculinities, marriage, and healthcare via HPV research would aid groups ranging from church congregations to the Mexican populace. Thus, Wentzell challenges the common regulatory view of medical research participation as an individual pursuit. Instead, she demonstrates that medical research is a daily life arena that people might use for fixing embodied societal problems. By identifying forms of group interconnectedness as “collective biologies,” Wentzell investigates how people can use their own actions to enhance collective health and well-being in ways that neoliberal emphasis on individuality obscures.

Female Mythologies in Contemporary Chicana Literature

Author : Nadine Gebhardt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9783638715812

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Female Mythologies in Contemporary Chicana Literature by Nadine Gebhardt Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: In Mexican-American/ Chicano culture, feminine archetypes from the Mexican tradition play an important role for woman's subjectivity. Traditionally, such archetypes epitomize Catholic-patriarchal constructions of womanhood. Idolized by the figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona, the most prevailing representations of female sexuality and motherhood evolve around the passive virgin, the sinful seductress, and the traitorous mother. Along the lines of Chicana feminism, the traditional definitions of these feminine archetypes can be seen as promoting an image of woman that is detrimental to female subjectivity. Although there are three figures, these archetypes evoke a binary opposition that defines woman as either "good woman" or "bad woman," "virgin" or "whore." As such, they limit and circumscribe the Chicana's development of subjectivity. But these cultural icons may also epitomize feminine power, and hence provide the Chicana with possible feminist role models to back up her emancipation. Chicana feminists have employed creative writing to counter the Catholic-patriarchal discourse on the Virgin of Guadalupe, Malinche, and La Llorona. As they explore these cultural archetypes in their novels, short stories, and poems, Chicana feminists attempt to reveal the mechanisms by which the original images of these mythic figures have been subverted, disempowered, and distorted. But most importantly, they seek to deconstruct the virgin/whore dichotomy by rewriting the mythic figures. Through a revision of existing myths, Chicana writers are able to create a feminist mythology that is rooted in cultural tradition but simultaneously serves as an act of resistance to the dominant discourse. This Master's thesis will explore the mythic figures of Guadalupe, Malinche, and La Llorona in all

Feminism, Nation and Myth

Author : Rolando Romero,Amanda Nolacea Harris
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611920426

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Feminism, Nation and Myth by Rolando Romero,Amanda Nolacea Harris Pdf

Feminism, Nation and Myth explores the scholarship of La Malinche, the indigenous woman who is said to have led Cortés and his troops to the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. The figure of La Malinche has generated intense debate among literature and cultural studies scholars. Drawing from the humanities and the social sciences, feminist studies, queer studies, Chicana/o studies, and Latina/o studies, critics and theorists in this volume analyze the interaction and interdependence of race, class, and gender. Studies of La Malinche demand that scholars disassemble and reconstruct concepts of nation, community, agency, subjectivity, and social activism. This volume originated in the 1999 "U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on la Malinche" conference that brought together scholars from across the nation. Filmmaker Dan Banda interviewed many of the presenters for his documentary, Indigenous Always: The Legend of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico. Contributors include Alfred Arteaga, Antonia Castañeda, Debra Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Deena González, María Herrera Sobek, Guisela Latorre, Luis Leal, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Amanda Nolacea Harris, Rolando J. Romero, and Tere Romo. These academic essays are complemented by the creative work of Alicia Gaspar de Alba and José Emilio Pacheco, both of whom evoke the figure of La Malinche in their work.

Adult Literacy Policy and Practice

Author : Vicky Duckworth,Gordon Ade-Ojo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137535115

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Adult Literacy Policy and Practice by Vicky Duckworth,Gordon Ade-Ojo Pdf

This book explores the gradual evolution of Adult literacy policy from the 1970s using philosophical, sociological and economic frames of reference from a range of perspectives to highlight how priorities have changed. It also offers an alternative curriculum; a transformative model that presents a more socially just different value position.

Eurafrican Migration

Author : Rino Coluccello,Simon Massey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137391353

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Eurafrican Migration by Rino Coluccello,Simon Massey Pdf

Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.

Against Caste in British Law

Author : Prakash Shah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137571199

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Against Caste in British Law by Prakash Shah Pdf

This book discusses the salience of the caste question in UK law. It provides the background to how the caste provision came into the Equality Act 2010 and how it was reinforced in 2013, and analyses the various interests that played a role in getting caste into law.