"So what exactly is it that you do?"

Well, this, basically. But I do it in Spanish.

"...During this time, especially in other areas of the world, an early feminism was beginning to assert itself. However, as Jean Franco observes, in Mexico, this was not the case. 'Traditionally strong in times of war and civil strife,' she writes in Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico, 'Mexican women were slow to challenge the domestication of women and often fearful of taking a step into areas where their decency would be put into question' (93). It is precisely the representation of the Mexican women who step into these dubious areas that interests me in this study.
The image of the sexually transgressive woman does not exactly abound in the porfiriato, but she is far from absent in both visual images and written discourse produced during the era..."


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