Search Results for femininity

...Mirta Zaida Lobato Queen for a Day: Transformistas , Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela . By Ochoa Marcia . Perverse Modernities . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 282 pp. Paper...

...Miguel Rojas-Sotelo Deborah Martin's Painting, Literature, and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940–2005 shows how a scholar can draw from multiple areas of study, including art history, literary criticism, anthropology, cultural theory, and film studies, and tie together the production...

...Sandra McGee Deutsch Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964–1973 . By Power Margaret . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2002 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 311...

... and Buenos Aires in order to focus on sociocultural practices. In their courtship rituals, romantic and sexual relationships, and household roles, Emilia, Dora, and La Lita engaged both respectability and sexual playfulness as modes of feminine expression. On October 26, 1931, at 9:00 p.m., at the corner...

..., bestial violence. Feminine beauty develops in a Colombia racked with violence from its inception, always yearning to see itself otherwise. Stanfield draws primarily from nineteenth-century travelers' accounts and newspaper and magazine coverage, particularly publications aimed at a feminine audience...

..., mobilization and discipline were the sine qua non of having a public voice in 1930s Mexico. Olcott explores the gendered practices of mobilization and discipline and brings to light the many ways motherhood, self-denial ( abnegación ), and other manifestations of the feminine ideal informed how women...

... Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge of the Beyond (1972) and Ti Jean l’Horizon (1979); and Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli, La mujer habitada (1988) and Sofía de los presagios (1990). Each is located in the midst of a social transition, whether liberal, abolitionist, or revolutionary; yet the feminine...

... to personal and social expectations of women and to idealized femininity in this setting, but was this the case for men? Did Jesus matter to masculinity? Did mundane examples of important religious men (the friar Motolinía, the archbishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, or the curate José María Morelos) influence...

... at the same time praising femininity. This female type, while drawn from images popularized in US comic strips and advice columns, adopted a distinctive local flavor, including a dark skin tone and a certain irreverence toward the upper-class lifestyle. The sportswoman, by contrast, revealed that moderate...

... democracy. Therefore, “it also imposes constraints and sets traps” (p. ix). For example, it favors feminine instead of feminist demands. Populist leadership uses different constructions of masculinity (the father, the athlete, the military man, and the priest) and femininity (self-sacrificing mother...

... in both the material and the physical realm— threatened to breach feminine decorum and lead the nation toward moral decadence. A growing misogynist tone is discernible among writers at the end of the century, and Galdós was not immune. A café habitué, the novelist inhabited an allmale world, and his...

... in this work occasionally tough going. Second, by treating male images of the feminine first, Masiello implies that women writers developed their views of the feminine only in response to male views. Next, Masiello’s own analysis undermines her periodization. The first period is clearly divided...

... and exaggerated feminine image was part of her visual representation. The iconic Carmen Miranda was reflected and re-created in films, novels, and all sorts of narratives produced even after her death. This book presents a new interpretation of Carmen Miranda by taking into account the concept of camp...

... sexuality.” She makes a strong case for masculine (macho) political behavior in which the actor sticks unyieldingly to his decision of confrontation vis-à-vis a challenge, as contrasted with feminine behavior in which compromise and dialogue takes place. The author argues that since the Porfirian...

... to the priest or another authority, the letter related that Having been since he was born Androgynous, his parents dressed him in women's clothes, and it [the feminine attire] being so repugnant to him because he had no inclination toward that sex, he always performed men's work, until when he grew up he...

..., paintings and prints projected ideals of femininity that could be “guided” to promote a desired concept of womanhood. This is easily perceived in religious works either in oil or on paper. A print of a dismembered feminine body could signify women’s vulnerability but, more so, the perils of a slave...

... to the postrevolutionary regimes. The movement of women into mixed-sex working environments prompted a public discussion of the moral implications of their work and challenged normative definitions of gender grounded in concepts such as feminine honor, virtue, and domesticity. The author draws on archival material...

..., Cárdenas diverged from the narrative of superiority based on birthplace. Drawing from the colonial paradox established with López de Hinojosos and Cárdenas, Pérez Marín next brings gender and femininity into the discussion. From Agustín Farfán's Tractado breve de anothomia y chirvgia, y de algvnas...

... transformations united the feminist movement against the obstacles erected by those strongly opposed to women’s professional education, who posited “feminine incompetence,” problems of questioning traditional gender roles and compromise of women’s femininity and reputation. Cohen also contends...