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Through her detailed interpretations of visual representations of la chica moderna, Hershfield demonstrates how the images embodied popular ideas and anxieties about sexuality, work, motherhood, and feminine beauty, as well as class and ethnicity. Her analysis takes into account the influence of mexicanidad, the vision of Mexican national identity promoted by successive postrevolutionary administrations, and the fashions that arrived in Mexico from abroad, particularly from Paris, New York, and Hollywood. She considers how ideals of the modern housewife were promoted to Mexican women through visual culture; how working women were represented in illustrated periodicals and in the Mexican cinema; and how images of traditional "types" of Mexican women, such as la china poblana (the rural woman), came to define a "domestic exotic" form of modern femininity. Scrutinizing photographs of Mexican women that accompanied articles in the Mexican press during the 1920s and 1930s, Hershfield reflects on the ways that the real and the imagined came together in the production of la chica moderna.
Author: Joanne Hershfield
ISBN-10: 0822342219
ISBN-13: 9780822342212
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2008
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/11/2008 pg. 17
Joanne Hershfield is Professor of Media Studies and Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Invention of Dolores del Rio and Mexican Cinema/Mexican Woman, 1940-1950 and a coeditor of Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers.
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