Mexican Calendar Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican Calendar Girls write by Angela Villalba. This book was released on 2006-08-24. Mexican Calendar Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A truly popular art form, the glamorous paintings of Mexican calendar girls have a long and fascinating historyas advertisements, enticements, and emblems of Mexican cultural heritage and pride. The result of years of research, this playful and informative book reproduces more than 150 vibrantly colorful calendar images, plus archival photographs and other materials that illuminate their creation. A fully bilingual text gives an overview of the calendars' social and cultural history, along with biographies of the talented artists who created them. Also including a foreword by the renowned Mexican cultural critic Carlos Monsivis, Mexican Calendar Girls presents this popular and delightful art as never before.
Statement by Carlos Contreras
Statement by Carlos Contreras - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Statement by Carlos Contreras write by Carlos Contreras. This book was released on 1947. Statement by Carlos Contreras available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sex in Revolution
Sex in Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex in Revolution write by Mary Kay Vaughan. This book was released on 2007-01-17. Sex in Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sex in Revolution challenges the prevailing narratives of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation by placing women at center stage. Bringing to bear decades of feminist scholarship and cultural approaches to Mexican history, the essays in this book demonstrate how women seized opportunities created by modernization efforts and revolutionary upheaval to challenge conventions of sexuality, work, family life, religious practices, and civil rights. Concentrating on episodes and phenomena that occurred between 1915 and 1950, the contributors deftly render experiences ranging from those of a transgendered Zapatista soldier to upright damas católicas and Mexico City’s chicas modernas pilloried by the press and male students. Women refashioned their lives by seeking relief from bad marriages through divorce courts and preparing for new employment opportunities through vocational education. Activists ranging from Catholics to Communists mobilized for political and social rights. Although forced to compromise in the face of fierce opposition, these women made an indelible imprint on postrevolutionary society. These essays illuminate emerging practices of femininity and masculinity, stressing the formation of subjectivity through civil-society mobilizations, spectatorship and entertainment, and locales such as workplaces, schools, churches, and homes. The volume’s epilogue examines how second-wave feminism catalyzed this revolutionary legacy, sparking widespread, more radically egalitarian rural women’s organizing in the wake of late-twentieth-century democratization campaigns. The conclusion considers the Mexican experience alongside those of other postrevolutionary societies, offering a critical comparative perspective. Contributors. Ann S. Blum, Kristina A. Boylan, Gabriela Cano, María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Heather Fowler-Salamini, Susan Gauss, Temma Kaplan, Carlos Monsiváis, Jocelyn Olcott, Anne Rubenstein, Patience Schell, Stephanie Smith, Lynn Stephen, Julia Tuñón, Mary Kay Vaughan
Frauenforschung international: Region Amerika (Süd-, Mittel- und Nordamerika)
Frauenforschung international: Region Amerika (Süd-, Mittel- und Nordamerika) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frauenforschung international: Region Amerika (Süd-, Mittel- und Nordamerika) write by Margarete Maurer. This book was released on 1992. Frauenforschung international: Region Amerika (Süd-, Mittel- und Nordamerika) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Steel Chair to the Head
Steel Chair to the Head - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steel Chair to the Head write by Nicholas Sammond. This book was released on 2005-01-13. Steel Chair to the Head available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine critical rigor with a deep appreciation of wrestling as a unique cultural form, the latest in a long line of popular performance genres. They examine wrestling as it happens in the ring, is experienced in the stands, is portrayed on television, and is discussed in online chat rooms. In the process, they reveal wrestling as an expression of the contradictions and struggles that shape American culture. The essayists include scholars in anthropology, psychology, film studies, communication studies, and sociology, one of whom used to wrestle professionally. Classic studies of wrestling by Roland Barthes, Carlos Monsiváis, Sharon Mazer, and Henry Jenkins appear alongside original essays. Whether exploring how pro wrestling inflects race, masculinity, and ideas of reality and authenticity; how female fans express their enthusiasm for male wrestlers; or how lucha libre provides insights into Mexican social and political life, Steel Chair to the Head gives due respect to pro wrestling by treating it with the same thorough attention usually reserved for more conventional forms of cultural expression. Contributors. Roland Barthes, Douglas L. Battema, Susan Clerc, Laurence de Garis, Henry Jenkins III, Henry Jenkins IV, Heather Levi, Sharon Mazer, Carlos Monsiváis, Lucia Rahilly, Catherine Salmon, Nicholas Sammond, Phillip Serrat, Philip Sewell
