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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Stephanie J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Women and the radical revolutionary laboratory
  • Redefining women : the making of a revolution
  • Broken promises, broken hearts : the revolutionary judicial system
  • Honor and morality : the church, the state, and the control of Yucatecan families
  • If love enslaves-- love be damned! : divorce and revolutionary state formation in Yucatán
  • Women in public and public women : prostitutes in revolutionary Yucatán.