Author: Susie S. Porter
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496206517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman’s presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these “angels of the home” began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. 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 analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women’s movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married and unmarried. Office workers also developed a critique of gender inequality and sexual exploitation both within and outside the workplace. From Angel to Office Worker is a major contribution to modern Mexican history as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationships between labor, politics, and the cultural and public spheres.
Author: Andrea Raimondi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443858420
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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What do Cesare Pavese, Beppe Fenoglio and Primo Levi have in common? Apart from their obvious Piedmontese origins, they and other writers coming from this Italian region share a certain tendency towards multilingualism, which is a characteristic that has not been comprehensively investigated over the years. This study presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern and contemporary narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories here examined are notable for the intriguing way in which they move between a variety of idioms – Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches (with rare excursions into French). With the support of linguistic and philosophical theories on the relation between identity, alterity and language, the book demonstrates how the use of non-standard parlances is fundamental in both reinforcing the sense of belonging to specific social groups and highlighting the presence of dissimilar identities and ‘other’ cultures. A sociolinguistic study and an analysis of the political and historical context of the region are also provided in order to illustrate how the combination of different varieties in literature reflects the region’s peripheral position, as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in Piedmont since the nineteenth century. This book fills a notable gap, and casts new light on Piedmontese literature.
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Publisher: Religacion Press
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Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Author: Cipriano Cárdenas
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Category : Hom-idyomo (Artifical language)
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Category : Cosmetics
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583487999
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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La Gaya Ciencia. Provided in Spanish only.
Author: International Auxiliary Language Association
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: Kristin Ruggiero
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804748711
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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This book examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization, and real public health issues in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. Modernity in the Flesh shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Modernity raised consciousness of the public good and a commitment to new sciences and a new set of priorities that asserted the precedence of health and security of the social whole. This book shows the ways that the tensions of liberal democracy between individual rights and the social good were tempered by "flesh" and articulated through this word. As the state was pursuing positivist science and government, the flesh held out a type of corrective to the focus on scientific and material progress.
Author: Isaac Campos
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by t
