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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815732103321

Autore

Hershfield Joanne <1950->

Titolo

Imagining la chica moderna : women, nation, and visual culture in Mexico, 1917-1936 / / Joanne Hershfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-02289-3

9786613022899

0-8223-8928-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/8687200904

305.488687200904

Soggetti

Women in popular culture - Mexico - History - 20th century

Sex role - Mexico - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Visualizing the new nation -- En Mexico como en Paris : fashioning la chica moderna -- Domesticating la chica moderna -- Picturing working women -- La moda mexicana : exotic women -- Conclusion : imagining "real" Mexican women.

Sommario/riassunto

A look at how the modern woman was envisioned in postrevolutionary Mexican popular culture and how she figured in contestations over Mexican national identity.