From Angel to Office Worker - Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 18901950

Informationen zum Autor Susie S. Porter is an associate professor of history and gender studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 and the coeditor of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader. Klappentext Susie S. Porter is an associate professor of history and gender studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 and the coeditor of¿Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader. Zusammenfassung To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico! From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyses how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. This is a major contribution to modern Mexican history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Graphs and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work” 2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s 3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City 4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City 5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s 6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s 7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Susie S Porter, Susie S. Porter
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781496204219
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0421-9
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: The Mexican Experience; The Mexican Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education