{"product_id":"imagining-la-chica-moderna-9780822342212","title":"Imagining la Chica Moderna","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA look at how the modern woman was envisioned in postrevolutionary Mexican popular culture and how she figured in contestations over Mexican national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This interesting volume approaches a very important topic: the changes in visual culture relating to middle- and upper-class women in Mexico during the years immediately following the violence of the Mexican revolution. . . . [T]his introduction to the topic of changing visual culture related to women in a time of political, economic, and social change is well conceived and fascinating.” - Linda B. Hall, \u003ci\u003eThe Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With\u003ci\u003e Imagining la Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e, Joanne Hershfield has made another important contribution to our understanding of popular culture in post-revolutionary Mexico.” - Stephanie Mitchell, \u003ci\u003eSocial History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joanne Hershfield’s intriguing monograph, \u003ci\u003eImagining la Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e reminds readers of an era following the 1910-1920 Mexican revolution in which multiple cultural experiments emerged. . . . \u003ci\u003eImaging La Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e is as insightful as it is suggestive.” - Marjorie Becker,\u003ci\u003e Journal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Richly illustrated, this book provides a smart, engaging and accessible study of Mexican modernity through the lens of popular visual culture.” - Freya Schiwy, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of Latin American Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] detailed and comprehensive study.” - Georgina Jimenez, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[S]everal aspects of Hershfield’s study recommend it for classroom use. . . . [She] writes clearly, carefully avoids jargon and cumbersome theoretical digressions, and assumes no prior knowledge of Mexican history. Her book might be productively used in any class that seeks to explore the relationship between visual culture and social life.” - Jocelyn Olcott, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImagining la Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging book that both demonstrates the role of gender in fashioning the Mexican nation and underscores the primacy of popular culture in that enterprise.”—\u003cb\u003eAnn Marie Stock\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eFraming Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joanne Hershfield’s book will become an essential reference guide for unpacking \u003ci\u003ela chica moderna \u003c\/i\u003eas a central trope of postrevolutionary Mexican society. By demonstrating the ways that ‘the modern girl’ was simultaneously cosmopolitan and native, Hershfield makes sense of the seemingly out-of-place phenomenon of the ‘Mexican flapper’ and her multiple meanings within the project of Mexican nationhood.”—\u003cb\u003eEric Zolov\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRefried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] detailed and comprehensive study.” -- Georgina Jimenez * Latin American Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“[S]everal aspects of Hershfield’s study recommend it for classroom use. . . . [She] writes clearly, carefully avoids jargon and cumbersome theoretical digressions, and assumes no prior knowledge of Mexican history. Her book might be productively used in any class that seeks to explore the relationship between visual culture and social life.” -- Jocelyn Olcott * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Joanne Hershfield’s intriguing monograph, \u003ci\u003eImagining la Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e reminds readers of an era following the 1910-1920 Mexican revolution in which multiple cultural experiments emerged. . . . \u003ci\u003eImaging La Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e is as insightful as it is suggestive.” -- Marjorie Becker * Journal of Social History *\u003cbr\u003e“Richly illustrated, this book provides a smart, engaging and accessible study of Mexican modernity through the lens of popular visual culture.” -- Freya Schiwy * Bulletin of Latin American Research *\u003cbr\u003e“This interesting volume approaches a very important topic: the changes in visual culture relating to middle- and upper-class women in Mexico during the years immediately following the violence of the Mexican revolution. . . . [T]his introduction to the topic of changing visual culture related to women in a time of political, economic, and social change is well conceived and fascinating.” -- Linda B. Hall * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003e“With\u003ci\u003e Imagining la Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e, Joanne Hershfield has made another important contribution to our understanding of popular culture in post-revolutionary Mexico.” -- Stephanie Mitchell * Social History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 3\u003cbr\u003e 1. Visualizing the New Nation 21\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eEn México como en París\u003c\/i\u003e: Fashioning \u003ci\u003ela Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e 3. Domesticating \u003ci\u003ela Chica Moderna\u003c\/i\u003e 73\u003cbr\u003e 4. Picturing Working Women 102\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eLa Moda Mexicana\u003c\/i\u003e: Exotic Women 127\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Imagining \"Real\" Mexican Women 156\u003cbr\u003e Notes 163\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 173\u003cbr\u003e Index 195","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406051221847,"sku":"9780822342212","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822342212.jpg?v=1730494365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-la-chica-moderna-9780822342212","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}