`HE LOVES THE LITTLE ONES AND DOESN'T BEAT THEM': WORKING CLASS MASCULINITY IN MEXICO CITY, 1917-1929

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dc.contributor.advisorVaughan, Mary Kayen_US
dc.contributor.authorGustafson, Reid Erecen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-02T05:31:18Z
dc.date.available2014-07-02T05:31:18Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines how Mexico City workers, workers' families, state officials, unions, employers, and others perceived, performed, and shaped masculinity during the period of the Mexican Revolution. I argue that Mexico City's workers, officials, and employers negotiated working-class gender beliefs in such a way as to express multiple, performed, and distinctly working-class masculinities and sexualities. Scholars who study gender in Mexico argue that during the 1930s a particular type of working-class masculinity became dominant: the idea of the male worker as a muscular breadwinner who controlled both machines and women. I agree with this claim, but the existing scholarship fails to explain how this "proletarian masculinity" developed prior to the 1930s. My dissertation studies the period right before this proletarian masculinity became dominant and explains the processes through which it gradually developed. During the 1920s, the state held a relatively unstable position of power and was consequently forced to negotiate terms of rule with popular classes. I demonstrate that the 1920s represent a period when no one form of masculinity predominated. A complex range of multiple masculine behaviors and beliefs developed through the everyday activities of the working class, employers, officials, and unions. A Catholic union might represent a rival union as possessing an irresponsible form of manhood, a young man might use bravado and voice pitch to enact a homosexual identity, and a single father might enact a nurturing, self-sacrificing form of manhood. My sources include labor arbitration board records, court records, newspapers, plays, poetry, and reports by social workers, police, doctors, labor inspectors, juvenile court judges, and Diversions Department inspectors. Each chapter in this dissertation analyzes a particular facet of workers' masculinity, including worker's masculine behaviors among youth, within the family, in the workplace, in popular entertainment venues, and within unions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15520
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLatin American historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGender studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLabor relationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledgenderen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlaboren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmasculinityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmexicoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrevolutionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledworking classen_US
dc.title`HE LOVES THE LITTLE ONES AND DOESN'T BEAT THEM': WORKING CLASS MASCULINITY IN MEXICO CITY, 1917-1929en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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