Description
Book SynopsisThis work examines the role of Mexican women from pre-Cortés to the 1980s.
Trade ReviewIn a remarkably succinct summary covering the colonial period to the late twentieth century, Julia Tunon Pablos offsets the history of images of Mexican femininity with the realities of being female in Mexico. This short book's strengths lie in its chronological breadth and its vivid descriptive detail. Pablos's insistence on the importance of understanding history to achieve change strikes a resonant note in the post-modern, technologically advanced part of the world where history is increasingly regarded as yet another commodity, subject to the whims of fashion and to be sold to the highest bidder.--TLS, April 21, 2000
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Women in Mexico: Between the Mirror and the Mirage
- 1. Women in the Mexica World: The Dilemma: Eternal Goddesses or Mortal Women?
- 2. Women in New Spain: The End of One World and the Shaping of Another
- 3. Mexican Women in the Nineteenth Century: Idols of Bronze or Inspiration of the Home?
- 4. Peace in Porfirian Times: In the Maelstrom of "Progress"
- 5. From Revolution to Stability
- 6. From "Development" to Crisis
- Conclusion: The Temptation to Exist
- Notes
- References
- Index
