From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950

by Susie S. Porter

Book Overview

2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies

In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496205782
• ISBN13: 9781496205780
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"