Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled by Tuñón Pablos, Julia

Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled

Throughout Mexico's history, women have been subjected to a dual standard: exalted in myth, they remain subordinated...
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Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled by Tuñón Pablos, Julia

Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled

$66.03

Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled

$66.03
Author: Julia Tuñón Pablos
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Throughout Mexico's history, women have been subjected to a dual standard: exalted in myth, they remain subordinated in their social role by their biology. But this dualism is not so much a battle between the sexes as the product of a social system. The injustices of this system have led Mexican women to conclude that they deserve a better world, one worth struggling for.

Published originally in Spanish as Mujeres en México: Una historia olvidada, this work examines the role of Mexican women from pre-Cortés to the 1980s, addressing the interplay between myth and history and the gap between theory and practice. Pointing to such varied prototypes as the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, and Sor Juana, Tuñón contrasts what these women represent with more realistic but less-exalted counterparts such as Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, La Güera Rodríguez, and Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza. She also discusses the identity transformation by which indigenous women come to see themselves as Mexicanas, and analyzes such issues as women's economic dislocation in the labor force, education, and self-image.

In challenging the illusion that historians have created of women in Mexico's history, Tuñón hopes to recover feminism--with its strengths and weaknesses, its vision of the world that is both intellectual and full of feeling. By examining the social world of Mexico, she also hopes to determine those situations that cause oppression, exploitation, and marginalization of women.



Author: Julia Tuñón Pablos
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 03/01/1999
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.05w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780292781610


Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2000 pg. 19 - Recommended/Special Interest

About the Author
Julia Tuñón Pablos teaches at the Dirección de Estudios Históricos of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City. Alan Hynds is a professional translator living in Mérida, Yucatán.


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