Katherine Elaine Bliss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5183056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Elaine Bliss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bliss |
| SIGNATURE | BLISS K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elizabeth O’Brien, Surgery and Salvation
Isabel M. Córdova. Pushing in Silence
How and why giving birth to the next generation of Puerto Ricans transformed from an unhurried home-based event, attended by a semi-trained midwife, to an efficient hospital-based affair likely to result in surgical intervention and, possibly, a malpractice suit is the topic of Isabel M. Córdova’s engaging book Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth. In it, the author carefully links the medicalization of…
Tiffany A. Sippial. Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920
A welcome addition to the growing body of literature analyzing the place of prostitution in debates about politics, society, and progress in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Latin America, this new volume places gender and sexuality at the center of the history of Cuba's transition from a colony to a republic. The study is organized chronologically and traces the history of attitudes toward prostitution in Cuba from the 1840s, as Hava…
Karen Kampwirth, editor. Gender and Populism in Latin America
Journal Article Karen Kampwirth, editor. Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics. Get access Karen Kampwirth, editor. Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics. Foreword by Kurt Weyland. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2010. Pp. xiv, 254. $65.00. Katherine E. Bliss Katherine E. Bliss Center for Strategic and International Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
International Relations and Intimate Encounters
International Relations and Intimate EncountersNew Work on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Latin America Katherine E. Bliss (bio) Voces en emergencia: El discurso conservador y la píldora del día después. By Claudia Dides Castillo. Santiago, Chile: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales and United Nations Fund for Population Activities, 2006. Pp. 187. $45.00 paper. Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico. By Matthew Gutmann. B…
El trabajo en las calles
This new publication provides an analysis of the social experience of work on the streets of Mexico City from the latter years of the Porfiriato through the early years of revolutionary reconstruction and reform. Rejecting the idea that vendors, performers, and those who provided services on public sidewalks, outside markets, and in the streets formed part of a marginal population, Mario Barbosa Cruz argues that the men and women who earned a liv…
Fixing Men
Journal Article Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico Get access Matthew Gutmann, Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 280. £12.95. ISBN 978–0–520–25330–8 Katherine Elaine Bliss Katherine Elaine Bliss Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 1…
Sex in Revolution
Editors Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano have assembled a crisp, well-integrated set of articles focused primarily on the experience of women during and after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Indeed, the title is somewhat misleading, because the collected articles deal far more with questions of gender identity and the use of ideas about masculinity and femininity in the popular classes’ negotiation with the state in the afterma…
Nuevas direcciones
Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina, 1870-1970
Diego Armus’s new collection pairs original analyses with previously published work to show readers how scholarly research on the history of medicine and public health in Latin America has developed in recent years. Armus says he selected essays that focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico between 1870 and 1970 because the historiography for those countries is especially rich. The articles feature topics ranging from a sensation-causing painting t…
He Said, She Said
He told the court that twenty-year-old Gloria abandoned their children and the home they had made together in Quetzaltenango in order to move to Guatemala City and live with another man. She told the court that forty-two-year-old Julio had refused to divorce his wife and marry her as he had promised and that she had made sure the children were safe with their father before she departed for the city to pursue a better life for herself
Mexican Masculinities
In Mexican Masculinities, Robert McKee Irwin explores the “homoerotics of nation”— that is, how literary representations of social relationships between men defined what it meant to be a man and, he argues, to be from Mexico between the early 1800s and the middle of the twentieth century. The study builds on, and then departs from, Doris Sommer’s contention in Foundational Fictions (Univ. of California Press, 1991) that “the symbolic construction…
Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens
By focusing on how working women and men experienced Mexico’s early-twentieth-century armed conflict, John Lear’s Workers, Neighbors and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City brings a fresh perspective to questions about collective action, regional politics, and social change that have long interested historians of the Mexican Revolution. This long book is based on extensive archival research and presents rich detail regarding the daily lives o…
The Sexual Revolution in Mexican Studies
A decade ago, researchers investigating the social and cultural dynamics of sexuality in twentieth-century Mexico would have turned to the largely quantitative studies of population growth and reproductive health for background information. Historians of colonial New Spain and early independent Mexico had published a series of important works on such issues as marriage, sexuality, and prostitution. 1 Political scientists and soci-1
Paternity Tests
This article analyzes the politicization of fatherhood in revolutionary Mexico City's process of social reform and institution building between 1910 and 1940. Based on evidence culled from juvenile court case histories, criminal trial transcripts, and letter-writing campaigns, it concludes that reformist and popular ideas about fatherhood were highly contested in this era of social change, legal reform, and state formation. By examining the compe…
The Science of Redemption
El estudio de la cultura politica en Mexico
The Science of Redemption
Paternity Tests
This article analyzes the politicization of fatherhood in revolutionary Mexico City's process of social reform and institution building between 1910 and 1940. Based on evidence culled from juvenile court case histories, criminal trial transcripts, and letter-writing campaigns, it concludes that reformist and popular ideas about fatherhood were highly contested in this era of social change, legal reform, and state formation. By examining the compe…
El trabajo en las calles
This new publication provides an analysis of the social experience of work on the streets of Mexico City from the latter years of the Porfiriato through the early years of revolutionary reconstruction and reform. Rejecting the idea that vendors, performers, and those who provided services on public sidewalks, outside markets, and in the streets formed part of a marginal population, Mario Barbosa Cruz argues that the men and women who earned a liv…
Fixing Men
Journal Article Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico Get access Matthew Gutmann, Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 280. £12.95. ISBN 978–0–520–25330–8 Katherine Elaine Bliss Katherine Elaine Bliss Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 1…
Nuevas direcciones
El estudio de la cultura politica en Mexico
Paternity Tests
This article analyzes the politicization of fatherhood in revolutionary Mexico City's process of social reform and institution building between 1910 and 1940. Based on evidence culled from juvenile court case histories, criminal trial transcripts, and letter-writing campaigns, it concludes that reformist and popular ideas about fatherhood were highly contested in this era of social change, legal reform, and state formation. By examining the compe…
The Science of Redemption
The Sexual Revolution in Mexican Studies
A decade ago, researchers investigating the social and cultural dynamics of sexuality in twentieth-century Mexico would have turned to the largely quantitative studies of population growth and reproductive health for background information. Historians of colonial New Spain and early independent Mexico had published a series of important works on such issues as marriage, sexuality, and prostitution. 1 Political scientists and soci-1
Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens
By focusing on how working women and men experienced Mexico’s early-twentieth-century armed conflict, John Lear’s Workers, Neighbors and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City brings a fresh perspective to questions about collective action, regional politics, and social change that have long interested historians of the Mexican Revolution. This long book is based on extensive archival research and presents rich detail regarding the daily lives o…
Mexican Masculinities
In Mexican Masculinities, Robert McKee Irwin explores the “homoerotics of nation”— that is, how literary representations of social relationships between men defined what it meant to be a man and, he argues, to be from Mexico between the early 1800s and the middle of the twentieth century. The study builds on, and then departs from, Doris Sommer’s contention in Foundational Fictions (Univ. of California Press, 1991) that “the symbolic construction…
He Said, She Said
He told the court that twenty-year-old Gloria abandoned their children and the home they had made together in Quetzaltenango in order to move to Guatemala City and live with another man. She told the court that forty-two-year-old Julio had refused to divorce his wife and marry her as he had promised and that she had made sure the children were safe with their father before she departed for the city to pursue a better life for herself
Nuevas direcciones
Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina, 1870-1970
Diego Armus’s new collection pairs original analyses with previously published work to show readers how scholarly research on the history of medicine and public health in Latin America has developed in recent years. Armus says he selected essays that focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico between 1870 and 1970 because the historiography for those countries is especially rich. The articles feature topics ranging from a sensation-causing painting t…
Fixing Men
Journal Article Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico Get access Matthew Gutmann, Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 280. £12.95. ISBN 978–0–520–25330–8 Katherine Elaine Bliss Katherine Elaine Bliss Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 1…
Sex in Revolution
Editors Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano have assembled a crisp, well-integrated set of articles focused primarily on the experience of women during and after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Indeed, the title is somewhat misleading, because the collected articles deal far more with questions of gender identity and the use of ideas about masculinity and femininity in the popular classes’ negotiation with the state in the afterma…
International Relations and Intimate Encounters
International Relations and Intimate EncountersNew Work on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Latin America Katherine E. Bliss (bio) Voces en emergencia: El discurso conservador y la píldora del día después. By Claudia Dides Castillo. Santiago, Chile: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales and United Nations Fund for Population Activities, 2006. Pp. 187. $45.00 paper. Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico. By Matthew Gutmann. B…
El trabajo en las calles
This new publication provides an analysis of the social experience of work on the streets of Mexico City from the latter years of the Porfiriato through the early years of revolutionary reconstruction and reform. Rejecting the idea that vendors, performers, and those who provided services on public sidewalks, outside markets, and in the streets formed part of a marginal population, Mario Barbosa Cruz argues that the men and women who earned a liv…
Karen Kampwirth, editor. Gender and Populism in Latin America
Journal Article Karen Kampwirth, editor. Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics. Get access Karen Kampwirth, editor. Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics. Foreword by Kurt Weyland. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2010. Pp. xiv, 254. $65.00. Katherine E. Bliss Katherine E. Bliss Center for Strategic and International Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Tiffany A. Sippial. Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920
A welcome addition to the growing body of literature analyzing the place of prostitution in debates about politics, society, and progress in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Latin America, this new volume places gender and sexuality at the center of the history of Cuba's transition from a colony to a republic. The study is organized chronologically and traces the history of attitudes toward prostitution in Cuba from the 1840s, as Hava…
Isabel M. Córdova. Pushing in Silence
How and why giving birth to the next generation of Puerto Ricans transformed from an unhurried home-based event, attended by a semi-trained midwife, to an efficient hospital-based affair likely to result in surgical intervention and, possibly, a malpractice suit is the topic of Isabel M. Córdova’s engaging book Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth. In it, the author carefully links the medicalization of…
Elizabeth O’Brien, Surgery and Salvation
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works) · Population (5 works)