Francie Chassen-López
Biographic Data
| ID | 471579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francie Chassen-López |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francie |
| FAMILY NAME | Chassen-López |
| SIGNATURE | CHASSEN-LÓPEZ F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5610-0201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I n M emoriam
A lthough we did not meet until 1990, Mary Kay and I were both born as historians of Mexico in the 1968 student movement.Incensed by the police violence unleashed against Vietnam War protesters at the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in late August 1968 and inspired by Mexican students braving riot squads and tanks to demand a political dialogue with an authoritarian regime, we were drawn to the struggles of Latin Americans for social justi…
The Weaponising of Women's Bodies in the Wars of Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, 1857–67
Acts of violence in war not only have individual effects on bodies, but they also have a social, collective impact on the social body. While recent works have recovered the participation of women in the War for Independence and the 1910 Revolution in Mexico, the role their bodies played in wartime has not been examined. Focusing on the decade of war between 1857 and 1867, which influenced the consolidation of national sovereignty and identity, th…
Biografiando mujeres
La reciente "vuelta biográfica" ha proporcionado una riqueza de nuevos temas y metodologías. Aquí se plantean dos preguntas: 1) ¿cuáles son los retos diferentes que enfrenta el biógrafo que desea investigar y escribir la vida de una mujer comparados con el que escribe la biografía de un hom- bre?, y 2) ¿cómo han influido los nuevos temas y métodos en las recientes bio- grafías de mujeres mexicanas? Para apreciar la influencia de esos, se revisan …
Sobre Fabiola Bailón Vásquez, Mujeres en el servicio doméstico y en la prostitución. Sobrevivencia, control y vida cotidiana en la Oaxaca porfiriana
The Traje De Tehuana as National Icon
“Is fashion in fact such a trifling thing? Or is it, as I prefer to think, rather an indication of deeper phenomena—of the energies, possibilities, demands, and joie de vivre of a given society, economy and civilization?” So wrote Fernand Braudel in The Structures of Everyday Life
Se llamaba Elena Arizmendi
“Adriana” is one of the most famous characters of Mexican literature. She first appears in José Vasconcelos’s Ulises criollo and later in La tormenta (volumes 1 and 2 of his four-part biography). A stunning woman, intelligent and sensual, a modern compañera for Mexico’s premier revolutionary intellectual, Adriana is almost the “perfect” lover — that is, until she leaves him. Then, this “glorious Eve” is transformed into a devourer of men, the fem…
A Patron of Progress
Despite the fact that women were barred from voting and holding public office, by 1895 Juana Catarina Romero (1837-1915) had emerged as the major textile importer, sugar refiner, and "modernizing" political boss (cacica) of the city of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. This article traces Romero's breathtaking transformation from humble cigarette vendor to culturally assimilated entrepreneur and behind-the-scenes politician, which paralleled and in…
Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Mark Wasserman has taken on the considerable task of making sense of the history of the turbulent nineteenth century in Mexico. The author also proposes to revive “lively narrative” and “colorful biography” as tools of the historian in order to achieve a “balance” (p. 4) between analysis and narrative. As a result, Mexico comes to life in his new study, Life and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. The book weaves together three watersheds (ind…
Maderismo or Mixtec Empire? Class and Ethnicity in the Mexican Revolution, Costa Chica of Oaxaca, 1911
On 18 May 1911, the indigenous Mixtec peasants of Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, rose up against the local cacique and ranchers who had dispossessed them of their ancient communal lands. Thus began not only the lone agrarian rebellion in the state of Oaxaca but also the only attempt to revive a pre-Columbian indigenous empire during the Mexican Revolution. The study of this remarkable episode situates Oaxaca, a state previously thought to be peripher…
Social Inequality in Oaxaca
Oaxaca
Biografiando mujeres
La reciente "vuelta biográfica" ha proporcionado una riqueza de nuevos temas y metodologías. Aquí se plantean dos preguntas: 1) ¿cuáles son los retos diferentes que enfrenta el biógrafo que desea investigar y escribir la vida de una mujer comparados con el que escribe la biografía de un hom- bre?, y 2) ¿cómo han influido los nuevos temas y métodos en las recientes bio- grafías de mujeres mexicanas? Para apreciar la influencia de esos, se revisan …
A Patron of Progress
Despite the fact that women were barred from voting and holding public office, by 1895 Juana Catarina Romero (1837-1915) had emerged as the major textile importer, sugar refiner, and "modernizing" political boss (cacica) of the city of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. This article traces Romero's breathtaking transformation from humble cigarette vendor to culturally assimilated entrepreneur and behind-the-scenes politician, which paralleled and in…
Maderismo or Mixtec Empire? Class and Ethnicity in the Mexican Revolution, Costa Chica of Oaxaca, 1911
On 18 May 1911, the indigenous Mixtec peasants of Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, rose up against the local cacique and ranchers who had dispossessed them of their ancient communal lands. Thus began not only the lone agrarian rebellion in the state of Oaxaca but also the only attempt to revive a pre-Columbian indigenous empire during the Mexican Revolution. The study of this remarkable episode situates Oaxaca, a state previously thought to be peripher…
The Traje De Tehuana as National Icon
“Is fashion in fact such a trifling thing? Or is it, as I prefer to think, rather an indication of deeper phenomena—of the energies, possibilities, demands, and joie de vivre of a given society, economy and civilization?” So wrote Fernand Braudel in The Structures of Everyday Life
Oaxaca
Social Inequality in Oaxaca
Maderismo or Mixtec Empire? Class and Ethnicity in the Mexican Revolution, Costa Chica of Oaxaca, 1911
On 18 May 1911, the indigenous Mixtec peasants of Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, rose up against the local cacique and ranchers who had dispossessed them of their ancient communal lands. Thus began not only the lone agrarian rebellion in the state of Oaxaca but also the only attempt to revive a pre-Columbian indigenous empire during the Mexican Revolution. The study of this remarkable episode situates Oaxaca, a state previously thought to be peripher…
Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Mark Wasserman has taken on the considerable task of making sense of the history of the turbulent nineteenth century in Mexico. The author also proposes to revive “lively narrative” and “colorful biography” as tools of the historian in order to achieve a “balance” (p. 4) between analysis and narrative. As a result, Mexico comes to life in his new study, Life and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. The book weaves together three watersheds (ind…
A Patron of Progress
Despite the fact that women were barred from voting and holding public office, by 1895 Juana Catarina Romero (1837-1915) had emerged as the major textile importer, sugar refiner, and "modernizing" political boss (cacica) of the city of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. This article traces Romero's breathtaking transformation from humble cigarette vendor to culturally assimilated entrepreneur and behind-the-scenes politician, which paralleled and in…
Se llamaba Elena Arizmendi
“Adriana” is one of the most famous characters of Mexican literature. She first appears in José Vasconcelos’s Ulises criollo and later in La tormenta (volumes 1 and 2 of his four-part biography). A stunning woman, intelligent and sensual, a modern compañera for Mexico’s premier revolutionary intellectual, Adriana is almost the “perfect” lover — that is, until she leaves him. Then, this “glorious Eve” is transformed into a devourer of men, the fem…
The Traje De Tehuana as National Icon
“Is fashion in fact such a trifling thing? Or is it, as I prefer to think, rather an indication of deeper phenomena—of the energies, possibilities, demands, and joie de vivre of a given society, economy and civilization?” So wrote Fernand Braudel in The Structures of Everyday Life
Sobre Fabiola Bailón Vásquez, Mujeres en el servicio doméstico y en la prostitución. Sobrevivencia, control y vida cotidiana en la Oaxaca porfiriana
Biografiando mujeres
La reciente "vuelta biográfica" ha proporcionado una riqueza de nuevos temas y metodologías. Aquí se plantean dos preguntas: 1) ¿cuáles son los retos diferentes que enfrenta el biógrafo que desea investigar y escribir la vida de una mujer comparados con el que escribe la biografía de un hom- bre?, y 2) ¿cómo han influido los nuevos temas y métodos en las recientes bio- grafías de mujeres mexicanas? Para apreciar la influencia de esos, se revisan …
The Weaponising of Women's Bodies in the Wars of Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, 1857–67
Acts of violence in war not only have individual effects on bodies, but they also have a social, collective impact on the social body. While recent works have recovered the participation of women in the War for Independence and the 1910 Revolution in Mexico, the role their bodies played in wartime has not been examined. Focusing on the decade of war between 1857 and 1867, which influenced the consolidation of national sovereignty and identity, th…
I n M emoriam
A lthough we did not meet until 1990, Mary Kay and I were both born as historians of Mexico in the 1968 student movement.Incensed by the police violence unleashed against Vietnam War protesters at the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in late August 1968 and inspired by Mexican students braving riot squads and tanks to demand a political dialogue with an authoritarian regime, we were drawn to the struggles of Latin Americans for social justi…
Political science (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works)