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Deco body, deco city : female spectacle and modernity in Mexico City, 1900-1939 / Ageeth Sluis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803293922
  • 9780803293908
  • 9780803293915
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1181 .D436 2016
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Contents:
Performance: a city of spectacles -- Bataclanismo: from divas to deco bodies -- Camposcape: naturalizing nudity -- Promis-cuidad: projecting pornography and mapping modernity -- Planning the deco city: urban reform -- Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez -- Palacio de Bellas Artes -- Conclusion: deco bodies, camposcape, and recurrence.
Subject: "In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival, the revolution, in the absence of men, also prompted women to take up traditionally male roles, created new jobs in the public sphere open to women, and carved out new social spaces in which women could exercise agency. In Deco Body, Deco City, Ageeth Sluis explores the effects of changing gender norms on the formation of urban space in Mexico City by linking aesthetic and architectural discourses to political and social developments. Through an analysis of the relationship between female migration to the city and gender performances on and off the stage, the book shows how a new transnational ideal female physique informed the physical shape of the city. By bridging the gap between indigenismo (pride in Mexico's indigenous heritage) and mestizaje (privileging the ideal of race mixing), this new female deco body paved the way for mestizo modernity. This cultural history enriches our understanding of Mexico's postrevolutionary decades and brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history to demonstrate how changing gender norms formed the basis of a new urban modernity"--
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Introduction: city, modernity, spectacle -- Performance: a city of spectacles -- Bataclanismo: from divas to deco bodies -- Camposcape: naturalizing nudity -- Promis-cuidad: projecting pornography and mapping modernity -- Planning the deco city: urban reform -- Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez -- Palacio de Bellas Artes -- Conclusion: deco bodies, camposcape, and recurrence.

"In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival, the revolution, in the absence of men, also prompted women to take up traditionally male roles, created new jobs in the public sphere open to women, and carved out new social spaces in which women could exercise agency. In Deco Body, Deco City, Ageeth Sluis explores the effects of changing gender norms on the formation of urban space in Mexico City by linking aesthetic and architectural discourses to political and social developments. Through an analysis of the relationship between female migration to the city and gender performances on and off the stage, the book shows how a new transnational ideal female physique informed the physical shape of the city. By bridging the gap between indigenismo (pride in Mexico's indigenous heritage) and mestizaje (privileging the ideal of race mixing), this new female deco body paved the way for mestizo modernity. This cultural history enriches our understanding of Mexico's postrevolutionary decades and brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history to demonstrate how changing gender norms formed the basis of a new urban modernity"--

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