Gender and the Mexican Revolution : Yucatán women & the realities of patriarchy /
The state of Yucatán is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Smith says that despite the intervention of women at many levels of Yucatecan society, the rigid definition of women's social roles as strict...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The state of Yucatán is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Smith says that despite the intervention of women at many levels of Yucatecan society, the rigid definition of women's social roles as strictly that of wives and mothers within the Mexican nation guaranteed that long-term, substantial gains remained out of reach for most women for years to come. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) : map |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807888667 0807888664 9781469605753 1469605759 |