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CONFERENCE
The organizing committee of the II Conference on Gender and Women in Mexican
History continues its preparation for the forthcoming meeting to be held in
Guadalajara in September 2003.
AWARDS
Stephanie Smith won second place for the Elsa Chaney Award for the Gender and
Feminist Studies Section of LASA in 2003, with the paper "Prostitution
and the Mexican Revolution: The Regulation of Women's Bodies, 1915-1924."
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves gave the paper "Una perspectiva de genero
en un cacicazgo sindical y en una familia politica," at the XVIII Congreso
Nacional de Historia Regional "Historia de familia, riqueza y poder,"
held at the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, December 5-7, 2002.
Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves presented the paper "Anticlericalism, iconoclasmo y feminismo en la Guadalajara revolucionaria: el caso de Atala Apodaca," at the VI Congreso iberoamericano de Historia de la Educacion Latinoamericana, San Luis Potosi, May 19-22, 2003.
Nichole Sanders, University of California, Irvine, presented "'Without Good Health Civilization Cannot Move Forward': Mexican Rural Social Welfare Policy," at Latin American Studies Associaiton, Dallas, Texas, March 27-29, 2003.
Stephanie Smith gave a paper for the 2003 Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) at the American Historial Association in Chicago. It was for the "New Directions in Mexican History" Roundtable Presentation at Mexican Studies Committee.
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas presented the paper "El 68, momento de ruptura Y transformacion en la familia Puebla," at the XVIII Congreso Nacional de Historia Regional: Historia de familia, riqueza y poder, at the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa. Culiacan, Sinaloa, December 7, 2002.
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas gave the paper "Los problemas de la oralidad en la historia reciente. El 68, un ejemplo," at the XI Jornada metropolitanas de estudios culturales: arte, literaturea y critica en Mexico y Latinoamerica, organized by the Casa Lamm, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, and the University of Arizona, July 3-5, 2002, Mexico, D.F.
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas presented the paper "El derecho al voto. Un largo y complejo trayecto," at El Foro Los derechos de la mujer en el siglo XXI, organized by the Foro Democratico Agrupacion Politica Nacional, Puebla, Pue., March 6, 2003.
Valentina Torres Septien, "Iglesia preconciliar y la idea de belleza en la mujer catolica," paper presented at the Coloquio international sobre practicas, representaciones y procesos de significacion, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, October 24, 2002.
Adriana Zavala, "Maria Izquierdo and the Body of Woman in 1930s Mexico City," Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, May 2003.
Adriana Zavala, "The Aesthetic and the Poetic: Maria Izquierdo, Gender, and "Pure" Painting in Mexico City in the 1930s," Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas, March 2003.
Adriana Zavala, "The India Bonita Contest and the Re-Constitution of Post-Revolutionary Mexican Femininity: Tradition, Autheticity and Desire," College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 2002.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Avital Bloch, "And Now, the Turn for the Woman's 'Gaze': Gender Analysis
and Creation"
Carmen Castaneda, "Educacion y proteccion legal de mujeres en Guadalajara, Mexico, en la primera mitad del siglo XIX," with the assistance of Myrna Cortes, Revista de Historia de la Educacion Latinoamericana, 4:2 (2002): 47-66.
Carmen Castaneda, "Petra Manjares y Padilla, Viuda y heredera de imprenta en Guadalajara, 1808-1821," in Viudas en la historia, Manuel Ramos Medina, editor, Mexico: Centro de Estudios Historicos de Mexico, Condumex, 2002, 167-180.
Gabriela Cano, "Se llamaba Elena Arizmendi," Universidad de Mexico. Reviat de la UNAM, (Apr. 2003): 17-28.
Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, book review of Katherin Elaine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, in Signos Historicos. Revista Semestral de la Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, 9 (Jan.-June, 2003): 157-161.
Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, book review of Las viudas en la historia, Manuel Ramos Medina, editor, Mexico: Centro de Estudios Historicos de Mexico, Condumex, 2002, La Ventana (Dec. 2002).
Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, "Genero y Estado en el siglo XX: el impacto de los movimientos de mujeres en la politica social," Takwa 6 (2003).
Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, "Once We Were Corn Grinders: Gender, Labor, and the Rise of the Tortilla Industry in Guadalajara, 1920-1940," International Labor and Working-Class History, 63 (Spring 2003).
Susan Gauss, "Masculine Bonds and Modern Mothers: The Rationalization of Gender in Textile Industry in Puebla, 1940-1952," International Labor and Working-Class History, 63 (Spring 2003).
Ana Maria Kapelusz Poppi, "The Primer Congreso de Higiene Rural and the Project for Socialist Medicine in Mexico: Morelia, 1935," The Americas (October 2001).
Ana Maria Kapelusz Poppi, "Physician Activists and the Development of Rural Health in Post-Revolutionary Mexico," Radical History Review (Spring 2001: 80), 35-51
Fernanda Nunez, Malinche: de la historia al mito, 2ed. Mexico: INAH, 2002.
Fernanda Nunez, La prostitucion y su represion en la ciudad de Mexico en el siglo XIX, Barcelona: Gedisa 2002.
Fernanda Nunez, "La princesa de Lamballe o el sexo masacrado," Graphen de Historiografia, no. 1, INAH, 2002.
Fernanda Nunez, "El lugar de las mujeres en/de la Historia," Graphen de Historiografia, no. 1, INAH, 2002.
Fernanda Nunez, "Motines en el San Juan de Dios. La resistencia de las prostitutas al control medico en el Mexico decimononico," Medicina, Ciencia y Sociedad en Mexico, siglo XIX, Laura Chazaro, editor, Morelia: El Colegio de Michoacan, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, 2002.
Jocelyn Olcott, "Miracle Workers: Gender and State Mediation among Textile and Garment Workers in Mexico's Transition to Industrial Development," International Labor and Working-Class History, 63 (Spring 2003).
Piedad Peniche, "El dulce encanto de la burguesia henequenera. Resistencia de los sirvientes de hacienda y estructuras demograficas en la Epoca Dorada, 1879-1910," in Piedad Peniche Rivero and Felipe Escalante Tio, editors, Los aguafiestas. Desafios a la hegemonia de la elite yucateca, 1867-1910. Merida, AGEY-CONACYT, 2002.
Ramos-Escandon Carmen, "Entre la ley y el crino: Normatividad juridica y dissputas familiares por la patria potestad in Mexico, 1870-1890," in Iberoamericana (Berlin) (Dec. 2002): 117-132.
Ramos-Escandon Carmen, "The Narrative Voice in Maria Rios Cardenas La mujer mexicana es ciudadana," in Disciplines on the Line: Feminist research on Spanish America and U.S. Latina Women, Anne J. Cruz, Rosalie Hernandez-Pecoraro, and Joyce Tolliver, editors, Newark, Delaware: Hispanic.
Patience A. Schell, Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City, Tucson: University of Arizona Press (Forthcoming 2003)
Patience A. Schell, "Las Damas del Catolicismo Social, 1912-1926," in Catolicismo Social en México vol. 2 Las instituciones del catolicismo social, Manuel Ceballos Ramírez, editor, Monterrey: La Academia de Investigación Humanística,
Patience A. Schell and Stephanie Mitchell, editors, The Women's Revolution: Women and Womanhood in Mexico, 1910- 1953, in progress.
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas, "Los problemas de la oralidad en la historia reciente. El 68, un ejemplo", in Memorias de IX Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales: Arte, Literatura y crítica en México y Latinoamérica, organized by the Casa Lamm, The University of Arizona, UAM, Metropolitana. México, D.F., July 3-5, 2002, forthcoming.
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas, "De la historia a la nostalgia. Memoria colectiva, el 68 en Puebla", in Memorias del VI Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, República de Panamá, Universidad de Panamá, July 2002.
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas, "Equidad de género en el desarrollo municipal", in Afirmativa. Revista del Instituto Sinaloense de la Mujer, Culiacán, Sinaloa, 1 (Oct. 2002).
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas, "De personas a ciudadanas: un momento en la reflexión, el 68 en Puebla", in Memorias del CIV Coloquio Nacional sobre la enseñanza de la filosofía: "Filosofía y sociedad contemporánea", November 21-23, 2002.
Gloria A. Tirado Villegas, "Otra mirada al 68: Mujeres universitarias en Puebla", en Graffylia. Mujeres acercamientos para su estudio, 1 (2003): 63-72.
Valentina Torres Septién, Producciones de sentido: el uso de las fuentes en la historia cultural. México: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2002.
Valentina Torres Septién, "Belleza reflejada: el ideal de la belleza femenina en el discurso de la iglesia, 1930-1970," Historia y Grafía, 19 (2002): 55-87.
Valentina Torres Septién, "Una orden católica de educadoras francesas en México. Las Hermanas de San José de Lyon," Vetas. Revista de El Colegio de San Luis, (Jan.-Apr. 2002): 43-62.
Lya Yaneth Fuentes, "Representaciones de los cuerpos femenino y masculino, salud y enfermedad. Una revisión de los anuncios publicitarios de El Excelsior, 1920-1990," La Ventana. Revista de Estudios de Género, 16 (Dec. 2002): 182-222.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
María Teresa Fernández Aceves, CIESAS-Occidente, México,
is finishing the project "Women, mothers, female workers, and female citizens
in Guadalajara: the struggle of the Círculo Feminista de Occidente for
women's suffrage, 1940-1955".
Patience A. Schell, from University of Manchester, UK, has a new project about the social history of consumption and consumers in Mexico since the Porfiriato. She has a scholarship to begin this research this summer.
Gloria Tirado Villegas, from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, is working on the history and collective memory of the 1968 student movement and the history of women in Puebla.
Adriana Zavala, from Tufts University, her current project: "Images of Women in Mexican Painting, Cinema, and Visual Culture, 1900-1950," book manuscript in preparation.
Compiled by María Teresa Fernández