From Angel to Office Worker by Susie S Porter

From Angel to Office Worker by Susie S Porter

To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyses how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. This is a major contribution to modern Mexican history.

"This book is an excellent contribution to a variety of historiographies and would work well in a graduate seminarIt is also well written and well organized, making it a useful addition to undergraduate courses on labor history, women’s history, state formation, and Mexican history."-Nichole Sanders, H-LatAm "This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender and labor history in the Americas."-Evan C. Rothera, Anthropology of Work Review “In this fine study Porter contributes to our understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist movement. . . . She shows the close linkage between women and work in feminist programming that would, contrary to conventional scholarship, expand rather than wither in the immediate decades after 1940.”-Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico “Susie Porter demonstrates that labor was key to both the women’s movement and the emergence of a middle-class identity. This is a must-read for scholars of twentieth-century Mexico.”-Robert F. Alegre, associate professor of Latin American history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England

Susie S. Porter is an associate professor of history and gender studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 and the coeditor of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader.

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ISBN 13	9781496204219
ISBN 10	1496204212
Title	From Angel to Office Worker
Author	Susie S Porter
Series	The Mexican Experience
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Year published	2018-06-01
Number of pages	372
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.