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From Angel to Office Worker : Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950 /

"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Porter, Susie S., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Graphs and Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. "Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work"; 2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s; 3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City; 4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City; 5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s; 6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s; 7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940s; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.