Working women in Mexico City : public discourses and material conditions, 1879-1931 /

Working women in Mexico City : public discourses and material conditions, 1879-1931 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Porter, Susie S., 1965-
Imprint:	Tuscon : University of Arizona Press, c2003.
Description:	xxv, 250 p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Employment -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History. Industrialization -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History. Economic history. Industrialization. Women -- Employment. Mexico City (Mexico) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. Mexico City (Mexico) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. Mexico -- Mexico City. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5002820

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ISBN:	0816522685 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Women in Metropolitan Industrialization
2. "She Has Moved Beyond Her Sphere": Discursive Constructions of Working Women
3. "Moral and Material Suffering": Protest and Power, 1880-1911
4. Inclusive Marginalization, 1911-1930
5. "Poor Yet Honorable People": Worker Response to the Gendering of the Workplace
6. "And That It Is Custom Makes It Law": Vendedoras in the Public Sphere
7. Working Women and the State, 1879-1931.