Newsletter No 36  November 2003 News From Mexico

 This year, we are celebrating the 50^th Anniversay of Mexican Women’s Suffrage.  During the past months, it has been raised this theme in the media, seminars, and conferences.  This has been an opportunity to assess how women achieved the recognition of their political rights and the future agenda for women in Mexico.  Because the issue of women’s suffrage inmmediately refers to politics, some questions have been brought up: Are there possibilities for women to became presidential candidates for the next election? How men and women see Mexican women politicians?  Are there historical changes or continuities on how Mexican society has conceived the role of men and women in the construction of politics, citizenship, and power over the 20^th and 21th centuries?  One of the most difficult inquiry raised around Mexican women’s political rights is in relation of the killing of young working-class women in Ciudad Juárez.  If Mexican women have political rights, why they are not enforced to stop these killings?  By using a gender historical perspective, one can argue that contemporary debates on women’s work, politics, sexuality, and equality in today’s Mexico use powerful historical “representations” and “discourses” that continue to shape public debate and state policy. 

 CONFERENCES REPORTS

 Report on the Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, 4-6 September 2003 by

Carmen Ramos Escandón, CIESAS-México (1)

 Guadalajara recently hosted the Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, an event of far-reaching academic importance.  The event opened with the keynote address of Dr Joan Scott, from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, a specialist in labor and gender history.  Scott‚s presentation evaluated the discipline of women‚s history, remarking on the current nostalgia, which mourns the early momentum of the field and the women's movement, even as it recognizes their specific achievements and concrete goals.  The other keynote address was given by Dr. Mary Kay Vaughan of the University of Maryland in College Park.  Dr. Vaughan spoke of maternity, feminine citizenship and beauty, emphasizing the importance of analyzing maternity‚s role in Latin America as a ticket to women‚s citizenship and especially the importance of maternity in the political project of the Mexican postrevolutionary state. 

These keynote addresses set the tone for the rest of the conference, attended by academics, commentators and moderators from Mexico, the United States, and one each from Germany and Great Britain.  Of the thirty presentations, seventeen were by U.S.-based scholars and fourteen by Mexicans.  Through their presence, participants represented thirty institutions, Mexican and foreign, including the Institute for Advanced Studies, the State University of New York, the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores de Antropología Social, the University of Minnesota, the University of Maryland, the Archivo General del Estado de Yucatán, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Southern Methodist University, Duke University, Bradley University, the Universidad de Puebla, the Colegio de Michoacán, the Colegio Mexiquense, the University of Manchester, the Freie Universität Berlin, Columbia University, the Universidad Iberoaméricana, the Colegio de Jalisco, the Universidad de Guadalajara and Ohio State University.  These scholars presented their work on panels organized around  several interesting topics such as citizenship, movements, labor, education, masculinity, violence, constructions of beauty and representations,  which were focused in a new gender perspective.  The conference  allowed  sufficient space for fruitful and focused discussion.  Although contemporary problems were mentioned, each one of these panels privileged a historical focus for analytical purposes.  Additionally, there was a roundtable to follow up on work presented at the predecessor conference to this one, held at Yale University in May 2001.  Both the work presented and the academic atmosphere fostered at the conference were exemplary, and the organization of the event itself was impeccable. 

Scott’s keynote address, which evaluated the situation of the historiography on women and gender in and about the United States, presented a fruitful comparison to the situation in Latin America.  The task of discussing women and gender in Latin America was given to Ohio State University professor Dr. Donna Guy who, in the final reflections, emphasized that using a comparative perspective fosters understanding of the regional specificities of Latin American cases.  For her part, the Universidad de Guadalajara anthropologist, Patricia Arias, underlined differences between the anthropological and historical perspective and focus, as well as differences of interpretation among U.S. and Mexican scholars.   

The most important contribution of the conference was to call attention, to bring to the  main stream of academic life,  to make legitimate, for the Mexican academy, studies on the history of women and gendered analysis  in Mexican intellectual discussions.   While it is true that women‚s history has gained academic respectability in the English, French, German, U.S., Argentine, Brazilian and Colombian cases, in contrast, in Mexico the discipline is still in its initial stages, and its academic diffusion does not correspond to the quality of the work produced -- quality in evidence at the conference.  This conference

demonstrated that the lens of gender, so frequently used in Sociology, in demographic studies and in political analysis, still has a great deal of ground to cover in Mexican approaches to Mexican history.  It is worth noting that the conference itself was hosted by an institution dedicated to anthropology, while still allowing for a historical perspective: the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.  

Rescuing women‚s presence in history using the analytical tool of gender, thus underlining social and political processes of construction of the differences between "him" and "her" and unveiling how spaces of power are differentiated through gender, is an urgent task in Mexican society.  This conference constitutes a highly fitting step in this direction and I hope that this is neither the first nor the only step.  I also hope that the experience is quickly repeated, thus allowing the discussions on the themes and methodological problems analyzed in Guadalajara to continue.  Finally, I hope that new voices and perspectives are incorporated into the nascent field, to foster the study of the infinite angles of analysis in the history of women and gender in Mexico. 

Report on the Roundtable 50 Years of Women’s Suffrage:

In Search of Recognition:The Political Struggle of Jaliscan Women.

 This roundtable discussed from historical, anthropological, and political perspectives how women obtained their political rights and challenged traditional stereotypes that were against the participation of women in politics.  This assessment contributed to understand the different political spaces women have won over these decades—organizations, political parties, electoral positions, and bureaucracy.  This evaluation helps to point out the political trajectory of women and how women’s political agenda could be expanded.

 PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES

 Agustine-Adamas, Kif, “Constructing the Nation through Marriage: Women’s Dependent Citizenship in Mexico, 1881-1956,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

 Alonso, Jorge, “El derecho de la mujer al voto,” 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

 Avila García, Virginia, “Un toque de distinción: las instituciones educativas para la formación de mujeres del Opus Dei” paper presented at the 6^th Iberoamerican Congress, May 19-23, 2003, San Luis Potosí, México.

 Avila García, Virginia, “El trabajo doméstico como forma de hacerse santas: el caso de las numerarias y auxiliares del Opus Dei”, paper presented at the 2^nd International Congress on the Hisstory of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

 Avila García, Virginia “Las mujeres del Opus Dei”, paper delivered at the XVIII Congreso Nacional de religión, sociead y política, October 2003, Tlaxcala, México.

 Boylan, Kristina, “De donde vino, y donde va el tema del activismo de mujeres catolicas en el México posrevolucionario,” 2^nd International Congress on the Hisstory of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

 Buck, Sarah A., “Mothers Day, the State, and Feminist Action: Maternalist Welfare Initiatives in 1940s Mexico”, Twenty-Fourth Latin American Studies Association Conference, Dallas, Texas, March 27-29, 2003.

 Buck, Sarah A., Presenter and Participant on the “Roundtable on Recent Dissertation Research in Mexican History”, American Historical Associal Annual Conference, Chicago, January 2003.

 Buck, Sarah A., Presenter and Participant on the “Roundtable on the Contributions of the Conference ‘Las Olvidadas: Gender and Women’s History in Postrevoltuinary Mexico, that took place at Yale University in May 2001”, 2^nd International Congress on the Hisstory of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

 Ballesteros Sentíes, Yolanda Eugenia, “La trascendencia de los estudios de género integrados a la currícula universitaria.  Efectos de los roles sociales asignados al hombre y a la mujer, sin relación a las diferencias físicas” paper presented at the I Congreso Nacional de Estudios de Género en el Estado de México, November 25-27, 2002.

 Blum, Ann S., “Cleaning for the Revolutionary Household: Public Welfare and Domestic Servantas, Mexico City, 1900-1959,” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October 1-4, Monterrey, México.

 Cano, Gabriela, “Debates de género y memoria de la Revolución Mexicana,” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October 1-4, Monterrey, México.

 Castillo Ramírez, Guilllermo, “Los roles de género en el debate sobre el sufragio femenino,” 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

 Civera Cerecedo, Alicia, “Relaciones de género y formación de maestros y maestras normalistas rurales en México de los internados mixtos a los ‘unisexuales’, 1934-1944,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

 Coffey, Mary, “Reproducing Mexico: Visual Culture, Gender, and Political Society,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Cohen, Deborah and Lessie Jo Frazier, “Love-In, Love-Out: Gender and Sexuality in a Global 68,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

De la Torre Castellanos, Angela Reneé, “El voto, un primer peldaño en el activismo femenino,” 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Escamilla Herrera, Irma and Clemencia Santos Cerquera, “El mercado laboral en México desde la perspectiva de la geografía del género”, paper presented at the 9o Encuentro de Geógrafos de América Latina, April 22-24, 2003, Mérida, México.

Fernández Aceves, María Teresa, “El Círculo Feminista de Occidnte y la campaña por el sufragio femenino en Guadalajara, 1940-1950,” 51^st International Congress of Americanists, July 14-18, 2003, Santiago , Chile.

Fernández Aceves, María Teresa, “Madres solteras, trabajadas y mujeres inspectoras del Departamento del Trabajo: El caso de Guadalajara y la campaña en contra de la explotación de las trabajadoras en talleres docimiciliarios en las décadas de 1940 y 1950”, XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October 1-4, Monterrey, México.

Fernández Aceves, María Teresa., Presenter and Participant on the “Roundtable on the Contributions of the Conference ‘Las Olvidadas: Gender and Women’s History in Postrevoltuinary Mexico, that took place at Yale University in May 2001”, 2^nd International Congress on the Hisstory of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Fernández Aceves, María Teresa, “La lucha por el sufragio femenino en Jalisco, 1910-1950”, 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Fernández Aceves, María Teresa, “Educación secular y universidad: el caso de Atala Apodaca,” III Congreso Nacional de Historia de las Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior en México Cátedras y Catedráticos, October 22-24, 2003, UNAM, México.0

Zúñiga, María Teresa, “Reflexiones hacia una agenda de las mujeres en Jalisco,” 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Fowler-Salamini, Heather, “Trade Unionsm, Gendr, and Citizenship in the Coffee Export Industry of Post-Revolucionary Veracruz,” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October 1-4, Monterrey, México.

García Peña, Ana Lidia, “Género e historia en México”, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, March 8, 2003, Toluca, Estado de México,.

García Peña, Ana Lidia, “La legislación de la familia durante la Revolución Mexicana”, II Coloquio Internacional sobre Historiografía de América del Norte, September 9, 2003, Morelia, México.

García Peña, Ana Lidia, “Conflicto familiar en la Ciudad de México”, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, October 2, 2003, Toluca, Estado de México.

Gauss, Susan, “Masculine Bonds and Modern Mothers: the Rationalization of Gender in the Textile Industry in Puebla, 1940-1952,” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October 1-4, Monterrey, México.

Goldsmith, Mary, “Política, trabajo y género: la sindicalización de las y los trabajadores domésticos y el Estado mexicano,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Gómez Santana, Laura, “Nuevos Estados, nuevas bellezas: años 30,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

González de la Vara, Martín and Nora Reyes Costilla, “Pasión, mujer y caballo. Movilidad social novohispana entre los afromestizos, siglos XVII-XVIII”, Coloquio Bueno para montar.  Aproximaciones interdisciplinarias a los fenómenos de montaje de bestias y humanos en prácticas lúdcas y festivas, El Colegio de Michoacán, March 13, 2003, Zamora, Michoacán.

Herrera Feria, María de Lourdes, “Huérfanas, nodrizas y profesoras poblanas a finales del siglo XIX,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Kapelusz-Poppi, Ana María, “El control masculino de la práctica obstétrica en Morelia de la Escuela de Medicina al Hospital Civil, 1830-1900,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Lau Jaivén, Ana, “Los limpios nahelos de las mexicanas: la Aliazna de mujeres y la lucha por el sufragio,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Laguarda, Rodrigo, “La construcción de identidades: una propuesta de análisis sobre el caso de los bares gay de la Ciudad de México,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Lang, Miriam, “Políticas públicas, violencia de género y feminismo en México durante los últimos sexenios PRIistas,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Macías González, Víctor, “Hegemonic Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Mexican Manuals of Etiquette,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

McNamara, Patrick, “Agustine Ramírez and the Struggle for Women’s Rights in Mexico,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Miranda, Roberto, “Adela y Amado.  Familia, género y cultura escrita en Guadalajara, 1800-1940,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Monárrez Fragoso, Julia, “Cuerpos que no importan o la seducción de la violencia en las mujeres asesinads en Ciudad Juárez,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Montes de Oca Navas, Elvia, “Lo que leían algunas mujeres durante el México de los años treinta” VI Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana,  May19-23, 2003, San Luis Potosí, México.

Montes de Oca Navas, Elvia, “Problemas de género de las maestras socialistas en el Estado de México”, 51^st International Congress of Americanists, July 14-18, 2003, Santiago , Chile.

Montes de Oca Navas, Elvia, “Una comparación de algunas revistas femeninas que circularon en México en los años treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX”, XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses,” October 1-4, 2003, Monterrey, México.

Núñez Becerra, Fernanda, “Los médicos decimonónicos frente a la sexualidad femenina”, Congreso de Ciencia, Tecnología y Género, Universidad Autónoma de México, April 23, 2003, México.

Núñez Becerra, Fernanda, “Las mujeres, discursos, prácticas y representaciones sociales en la historia de México”, Encuentro Perú-México, July 21-22, 2003, Universidad Católica del Perú-Colegio de Michoacán.

Ochoa Avalos, María Candelaria, “El derecho al voto, un paso hacia la ciudadanía de las mujeres,” 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Pani, Erika, “La mujer como ciudadana: apuntes para un análisis comparativo,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Peniche Rivero, Piedad, “Elvia Carrillo Puerto y las igualadas: el movimiento feminista la Liga ‘Rita Cetina Gutiérrez’ en Yucatán,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Porter, Susie, “Empleadas: Economic Need, Sexual Morality, Consumer Habists, and Women’s Right to Work,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Ramírez Barreto, Ana Cristina, “Habituándose a la violencia de los juegos con ganado mayor: el devenir de la experiencia de Fanny Inglis de Calderón según relata en Life in Mexico, 1843”, II Congreso Internacional Alexander von Humboldt.  Viajes, viajeros y literatura de viajes hacia y desde México, América Latina y el Caribe, siglos XV al XX.  August 3, 2003, Morelia, México.

Ramos-Escandón, Carmen, “Género y poder familiar.  El sentimiento y la razón enfrentados, Guadalajara, 1870-1900”, 51^st International Congress of Americanists, July 14-18, 2003, Santiago , Chile.

Ramos-Escandón, Carmen, “Diferencia genérica y ordenamiento familiar en el México Liberal. Conflictos por matrimonio y patria potestad en Guadalajara, 1870-1900”, XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October, 1-4, 2003, Monterrey, México.

Rocha, Martha, Presenter and Participant on the “Roundtable on the Contributions of the Conference ‘Las Olvidadas: Gender and Women’s History in Postrevoltuinary Mexico, that took place at Yale University in May 2001”, 2^nd International Congress on the Hisstory of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Robles, Mara, “Representación política de las mujeres,” 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Rubenstein, Anne, “Female Masculinity in 1920s Mexico City: Las Pelonas and their enemies,” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October 1-4, Monterrey, México.

Sanders, Nichole, Buck, Sarah A., Presenter and Participant on the “Roundtable on the Contributions of the Conference ‘Las Olvidadas: Gender and Women’s History in Postrevoltuinary Mexico, that took place at Yale University in May 2001”, 2^nd International Congress on the Hisstory of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Smith, Stephanie, J., “Prostituton and the Mexican Revolution: The Regulation of Women’s Bodies 1915-1924,” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, October 1-4, Monterrey, México.

Street, Susan, “El género como categoría para repensar al sujeto popular: dos generaciones en el activismo femenino del magisterio democrático mexicano,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Tirado, Gloria, “La significación del movimiento de 68 en las universitarias poblanas”, 51^st International Congress of Americanists, July 14-18, 2003, Santiago , Chile.

Torres Septién, Valentina, “El ideal de belleza femenina en el discurso de la iglesia, 1930-1970,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Vaca, Agustín, “La novela como fuente primaria de información sobre la historia de las mujeres,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Vaughan, Mary Kay, “La belleza, la materniadad y la ciudadanía: la construcción de la mujer moderna,” key note address at the Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Zavala, Adriana, “The India Bonita Contest of 1921 and the Re-constitution of Postrevolutionary Mexican Femininity: Tradition, Authenticity, and Desire,” Second International Congress on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 4-6, 2003, Guadalajara, México.

Zúñiga, María Teresa, “Reflexiones hacia una agenda de las mujeres en Jalisco,” 50 Años de Sufragio Femenino, 1953-2003.  En busca del reconocimiento: la lucha política de las mujeres en Jalisco, October 17, 2003, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Avital Bloch, “And Now, the Turn for the Woman’s ‘Gaze’: Gender Analysis and Creation in Contemporary Visual arts,” Culturas Contemporáneas, Junio 2003.

Alvarado, Ma. de Lourdes, “La educación ‘superior’ femenina en el México del siglo XIX.  Demanda social y reto gubernamental”.  Ph D. thesis, UNAM, 2001.

Avila García, Virginia , “El trabajo femeino y las relaciones de geenero y poder en el Opus Dei” Estudios del Hombre (Sep. 2003).

Buck, Sarah A., “The Meaning of the Women’s Vote in Mexico: 1917-1953”, in Patience Schell and Stephanie Bryant Mitchell, Eds.  The Women’s Revolution: Women and Womanhood Mexico.  Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, forthcoming.

Buck, Sarah A., “Women and Social Welfare in Mexico”, Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, forthcoming.

Buck, Sarah A., “Rosa Torres Escamilla Herrera, Irma, “La ocupación laboral femenina en dos ciudades fronterizas: Tijuana y Matamoros” in Investigaciones Geográficas 45 (2001): 86-107.

Escamilla Herrera, Irma, “Cambio sectorial del empleo masculino y femenino en los principales centros urbanos de la Región Centro de México” Alteridad 4 (Oct. 2002): 12-22.

Gonzáles: Soldadera and Feminista,” in Jeffrey Pilcher, ed., The Human Tradition in Mexico.  Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003.

García Peña, Ana Lidia, “Madres solteras y abandonadas en la Ciudad de México durante el siglo XIX”, Historia Mexicana 211 (2004), forthcoming.

García Peña, Ana Lidia, “Historia de las mujeres del siglo XIX: algunos problemas metodológicos” in Eli Bartra, ed., Debates entorno a una metodología feminista.  México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, 2002, 199-230.

Gaspar González, Aleyda, “Lectoras oaxaqueñas del siglo XIX” Cuadernos Feministas, 10 (April 2003).

González de la Vara, Martín, “Tabaquismo femenino en el México independiente”, Cuicuilco (Ene.-Mar. 2000): 223-256.

González de la Vara, Martín and Nora Reyes Costilla, “El cambio de género como estrategia de supervivencia en el Norte de la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XVII”, Diálogos Latinoamericanos, Aarhus, Romansk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, (July 2003): 78-87.

Hillerkuss, Thomas, Diccionario biográfico del Occidente novohispano.  Siglo XVI.  2 vols.  Zacatecas: Centro de Dcoencia Superior de la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas and  Ediciones Cuellar, 1997 and 2001.

Montes de Oca Navas, Elvia, “La mujer ideal según las revistas femeninas en México, 1930-1940” Convergencia.

Núñez Becerra, Fernanda, “Las mujeres en la historia: las trampas de la historia”, Revista Graphen 1 (2002): 122-130.

Núñez Becerra, Fernanda, “Motines en el San Juan de Dios.  La resistencia de las prostitutas al control médico en el México decimonónico” in Laura Cházaro, ed., Medicina, Ciencia y Sociedad en México, siglo XIX.  Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán and Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo, 2002.

Ramos-Escandón, Carmen, “Diferencias de género en el trabajo textil en México y Estados Unidos durante el siglo XIX”, Revista Estudios del Hombre, 16 (2003): 41-65.

Ramos-Escandón, Carmen, “Género y derechos femeninos en la legislación familiar del siglo XIX en Jalisco,” Revista del seminario de Historia Mexicana 3 (Fall 2002): 21-48.

Tirado, Gloria, “Voces de mujeres en el 68, Puebla”, Identidad magisterial (Mayo 2003): 5-17.

Tirado, Gloria, “Zona de tolerancia o zona roja.  La vida de noche en el barrio de San Antonio de la ciudad de Puebla”, Juan Andreo y Sara Beatriz Guardia, eds., Historia de las mujeres en América Latina.  Universidad de Murcia, 2003, 263-283.

Wolfensberg, Lilly, Cuerpo de mujer, campo de batalla.  México: Plaza y Valdés, 2da. Edición, 2002.

CURRENT RESEARCH-PROJECT:

Virignia Avila García, from the Universidad on cit Virignia Avila García, from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, is working on the women of the Opus Dei.

Ana Lidia García Peña, from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, is working on the manuscript “Liberal Reform and lovers in conflict”.  This will be the revised version of her dissertation entitled “Violencia conyugal: divorcio y reclusion en la Ciudad de México, siglo XIX”.  Ph. Diss., El Colegio de México, México. 2002.  This dissertation received the award from the Mexican Science Academy for the best dissetation in 2003.

Rebeca Monroy Nasr, from the Dirección de Estudios Históricos of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, is working on the pictures of three women—María de Teresa de Landas, who was Miss Mexico in 1928; Esperanza Velazques Bringas, a lawyer and feminist; and on the arrival of Amelia Earhart to Mexico in 1935—taken by Enrique Díaz.

Ana Cristina Ramírez Barreto, from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, is working on her Ph D research on “Men, women, and animals in the charrería in Morelia, 1923-2003”.

Carmen Ramos-Escandón, from the Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, is working on citizenship rights and the gender constructions in the family law in 19^th Mexico.

Lilly Wolfensberger is trying to publish the manuscript Voces de mujeres.  This manuscript is divided into three volumes.  It contains aproximtely 150 testimonies of Mexican women of different generations and distinct social classes.  Throught these testimonies, it seeks to challenge traditional practices in relation to gender roles in order to look for new alternative paths to build a society more tolerant to the difference.  Volume 2 addresses the sexual and reproductive experiences of women before the pill, natural births and rapes.  Finally, volume 3discusses the gender differences in distinct regions of Mexico.

Martha Patricia Zarza Delgado, from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, is working on children’s toys that promotes certain gender sterotypes.

-Compiled by María Teresa Fernández-Aceves.