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Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
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Gender and the negotiation of daily life in Mexico, Author: English View all editions and formats Summary: History is not just about great personalities, wars, and revolutions; it is also about the subtle aspects of more ordinary matters. On a day-to-day basis the aspects of life that most preoccupied people in late eighteenth- through mid nineteenth-century Mexico were not the political machinations of generals or politicians but whether they themselves could make a living, whether others accorded them the respect they deserved, whether they were safe from an abusive husband, whether their wives and children would obey them-in short, the minutiae of daily life.
This book explores the relationships between Mexicans, their environment, and one another, as well as their negotiation of the cultural values of everyday life. Find a copy online Links to this item ebrary. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Internet resource Document Type: Jocelyn Olcott; S onya L ipsett -R ivera.
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Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, — Convinced that neither her own encounters with women nor the documentary record on violence involving women sustains this belief, she sets out instead to understand the ritualized grammar of quotidian violence and its connections to honor. Drawing principally on prescriptive literature and criminal court records from Mexico City and Puebla, Lipsett-Rivera examines the ways that elites and non-elites alike navigated social spaces and embodied performances that defined normative concepts of gender and respectability.
Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life joins a growing body of scholarship on what Lipsett-Rivera calls middle-period Mexico, encompassing the late Most users should sign in with their email address.
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Alcohol, Literature, and Nation-Building Part 1. Imagining the Nation through Alcohol, Class, and Gender 1. Everything in Its Right Place? Patriotic Heroes and Consummate Drunks: Alcohol, Masculinity, and Nationhood Part 2.
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Yankees, Toffs, and Miss Quixote: Medicine, Madness, and Modernity in Porfirian Mexico: Alcoholism as the National Disease Conclusion: Review quote "Toner's blending of literary analysis with medical and criminal reports presents a valuable approach to studies of nationalism, Mexico, and Latin America. Garza, author of The Imagined Underworld: Garza "Deborah Toner deftly combines the methodologies of history and literary criticism to show how drink was crucial to ideas about the nation in nineteenth-century Mexico.
Informed by the findings of the anthropology of alcohol, this book offers important contributions to Mexican social, intellectual, and literary history.