Susie S. Porter

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Mexican Experience
• Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781496205780
• ISBN-10: 1496205782
• Artikelnr.: 50014592

Inhaltsangabe

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