Constructing Mexico: Marriage, Law and Women's Dependent Citizenship in the Late‐Nineteenth and Early‐Twentieth Centuries

Augustine-Adams, Kif

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2006.00412.x

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“…This construct was prevalent throughout Europe from the 19th until the early 20th century and persisted in Mexico, despite numerous changes in the legal codes, until a series of legal challenges in the 1950s finally abolished it (Karlsson ; Augustine‐Adams ). Under dependent citizenship, a wife's citizenship followed that of her husband.…”

Section: The History Of a Fractured Political Bodymentioning

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“…It was understood that through her consent to marriage a woman implicitly consented to the change in citizenship (Augustine‐Adams, ). The justification of this legal framework was premised on the “nature of marriage,” in which the husband was the head of the family and a wife's independent citizenship would destroy “family unity” (Vallarta cited in Augustine‐Adams, :29). The legal construct of dependent citizenship was specifically applied in cases of expatriation and naturalization and had a number of important consequences affecting women's franchise and property rights; however, it is useful here to co‐opt this term to describe the regime under which Mexican women's citizenship was fractured, and to understand how this fractured citizenship continues to affect women's access to legal protection and their strategic performances of femininity today.…”

Section: The History Of a Fractured Political Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Imperiled Femininity: The Dismembering of Citizenship in Northern Mexico

Haney

2012

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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This article examines how historical constructions of Mexican citizenship are implicated in women's current performances of femininity in Chihuahua City. Throughout much of Mexican history, women's rights to life and bodily integrity did not inhere within their own persons but were extensions of the rights of their fathers and husbands. Women living outside male protection had no guarantee of security, and those living within such protection were only guaranteed security from men outside of their relationships of dependency. The following work argues that the legacy of dependent citizenship has created a “bodies politic,” which structures the current system of impunity for gendered violence, and that these structures continue to have an impact on the reimagining of femininity. Drawing on 13 months of fieldwork spent investigating which performances of femininity women most associated with security; this research examines the quotidian strategies through which women are negotiating their need and/or desire to expand upon such performances with their continued desire for security in the increasingly dangerous environment of Northern Mexico.

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Section: The History Of a Fractured Political Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The History Of a Fractured Political Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Imperiled Femininity: The Dismembering of Citizenship in Northern Mexico

Haney

2012

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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The Penal Code of 1871: From Religious to Civil Control of Everyday Life

Sloan

2011

A Companion to Mexican History and Culture

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The refracted portrait of the artist: The cultural reproduction of artist attributes through the Venice Film Festival

Blair,

Bok

2023

International Journal of Media &Amp; Cultural Politics

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Research has shown how ‘cultural consecration’ grants economic and symbolic benefits to cultural producers and their creations. Yet few studies adopting this approach have explored the content of these creations themselves. Consecration is a contagious process, and culturally consecrated objects also consecrate the representations contained within. Drawing on insights from the sociology of culture and art history, this study qualitatively analyses and illustrates the reproduction of three social roles of ‘the artist’ in biopics nominated for the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion Award since the year 2000. Focusing on representations of prominent artists who themselves are consecrated in both popular and artistic circles, this article shows how social characteristics of artists – individual exceptionalism, social separation and artistic autonomy – are reproduced through the medium of consecrated film. It concludes by considering the practical implications of such reproductions and avenues for future research on the consecration of cultural content.

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Constructing Mexico: Marriage, Law and Women's Dependent Citizenship in the Late‐Nineteenth and Early‐Twentieth Centuries

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

Imperiled Femininity: The Dismembering of Citizenship in Northern Mexico

Imperiled Femininity: The Dismembering of Citizenship in Northern Mexico

The Penal Code of 1871: From Religious to Civil Control of Everyday Life

The refracted portrait of the artist: The cultural reproduction of artist attributes through the Venice Film Festival

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