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Book SynopsisTrade Review"
Deco Body, Deco City delivers a new lexicon that will undoubtedly become standard in modern Mexican historiography."—Elena Jackson Albarrán,
Hispanic American Historical Review"
Deco Body, Deco City is a much needed addition to the existing literature on modern Mexican history."—
Washington BookReview"
Deco Body provocatively combines the aesthetic, urban planning, and architecture and suggests new avenues of research that promise to productively expand the field of Mexican cultural history."—Laura Isabel Serna,
Pacific Historical Review"Sluis's study is one of the most original studies of women in Mexican culture since the publication of Jean Franco's
Plotting Women in 1989. But while Franco—and other scholars after her, such as Vicky Unruh—have focused on women writers and artists, Sluis turns her eye to a group of women who have for the most part gone unnoticed by cultural historians: popular actresses, vaudeville girls, prostitutes, working-class women, and other female subjects who inhabited the lower tiers of urban culture between 1920 and 1950."—Rubén Gallo,
Latin American Research Review“Ageeth Sluis has opened the history of the Mexican Revolution to the gendered gaze of urbanization, art, theater, and modernity. . . . A fascinating study.”—Donna Guy, emerita professor of history at Ohio State University and author of
Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina “
Deco Body, Deco City offers cutting-edge analysis and a sweeping look at subjects never before studied in twentieth-century Mexican history: markets, opera performers, urban parks, and how women navigated a revolutionary regime.”—James Garza, associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of
The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City “This is a great book. It enriches our understanding of the postrevolutionary decade and brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history in the way that only the best cultural historians of Mexico can.”—Victor Macías-González, professor of history and women’s gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: City, Modernity, Spectacle
1. Performance: A City of Spectacles
2. Bataclanismo: From Divas to Deco Bodies
3. Camposcape: Naturalizing Nudity
4. Promis-cuidad: Projecting Pornography and Mapping Modernity
5. Planning the Deco City: Urban Reform
6. Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez
7. Palacio de Bellas Artes
Conclusion: Deco Bodies, Camposcape, and Recurrence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
