9780822358824-0822358824-A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910

A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910

ISBN-13: 9780822358824
ISBN-10: 0822358824
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Robert M. Buffington
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822358824
ISBN-10: 0822358824
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Robert M. Buffington
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910 (ISBN-13: 9780822358824 and ISBN-10: 0822358824), written by authors Robert M. Buffington, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Mexico (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910 (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Mexico books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers with alternative masculine scripts that were more realistic about their lives, more responsive to their concerns, and more representative of their culture than anything proposed by elite social reformers and Porfirian officials. The penny press shared elite concerns about the destructive vices of working-class men, and urged them to be devoted husbands, responsible citizens, and diligent workers; but it also used biting satire to recast negative portrayals of working-class masculinity and to overturn established social hierarchies. In this challenge to the "macho" stereotype of working-class Mexican men, Buffington shows how the penny press contributed to the formation of working-class consciousness, facilitated the imagining of a Mexican national community, and validated working-class men as modern citizens.

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