From angel to office worker : middle-class identity and female consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950 /
"In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the dome...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Mexican experience.
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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.