This special issue of Pacific Historical Review, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” is guest edited by Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. The articles in the collection reflect the primacy of gender and intimacy as tools of analysis in recovering the experiences of women of Spanish-Mexican and Mexican origin in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century borderlands. As the authors demonstrate, using gender and intimacy, along with race, ethnicity, class, and culture, allow for the recovery of women’s personal and family lives and how they intersected with the economic, political, and social transformations of the region. The result is nuanced understandings of how women negotiated and resisted state-based, patriarchal ideologies and practices that sought to limit their lives and those of their families. The special issue includes a preface from Marc S. Rodriguez, this introduction, and articles by Celeste Menchaca, Erika Pérez, and Margie Brown-Coronel.
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February 01 2020
Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Miroslava Chávez-García,
Miroslava Chávez-García
Miroslava Chávez-García is member of the department of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz is member of the department of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Pacific Historical Review (2020) 89 (1): 4–15.
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Miroslava Chávez-García, Verónica Castillo-Muñoz; Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Pacific Historical Review 1 February 2020; 89 (1): 4–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2020.89.1.4
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