Kathryn A Sloan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 519385 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kathryn A Sloan |
| PRENOMES | Kathryn A |
| SOBRENOME | Sloan |
| ASSINATURA | SLOAN K A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arkansas |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Nora E. Jaffary. Abortion in Mexico
Jonathan M. Weber, Death is All around Us
Nineteenth-century cities around the world struggled to deal with the realities of the dead and dying. High mortality rates, rapid industrialization and urbanization, and rural-urban migration contributed to the onslaught of public health issues related to the infectious living and decaying bodies. Literally, corpses littered the public spaces and the morgues of the modernizing city. Likewise, a marker of civilization and modernity correlated to …
Stains of Blood
Stains of Blood
Chapter 6 dissects how Mexicans processed and came to terms with death, especially tragic deaths of youth. It examines the moral panic that arose regarding youth and their perceived propensity for self-destruction and other violent behaviors. The documentary base of this chapter draws mostly from editorials and media coverage that bemoaned the self-destructive impulses of adolescent Mexicans. Secondly, the chapter contrasts competing attitudes to…
A Social History of Suicide in Mexico City, 1900–1930
Chapter 1 presents an overview of scientific politics and the drive to collect and record moral statistics. Extrapolating from the extant suicide inquests, the chapter also analyzes suicide by gender, time of day and year committed, method, and reasons professed by the victims.
From Corpse to Cadaver
This chapter travels the path of the suicide victim from live body to corpse to cadaver of the suicide victim. Some suicides undertook elaborate measures to prepare their bodies for death. Women, in particular, donned their finest clothing and coiffed their hair. A few of them were determined to leave behind an exquisite corpse. Reporters and medical investigators had the first access to corpses at the scenes of death. Next, police station offici…
Media, Moral Panic, and Youth Suicide
A review of multiple newspaper articles and editorials from the secular and Catholic press, broadsides of José Guadalupe Posada, suicide letters, literature, and poetry, examines the sociocultural meanings of suicide in Mexico to provide the documentary base for Chapter chapter 3. The discussion analyzes the multiple narratives derived from numerous social imaginaries that competed and sometimes cooperated to make sense of the perceived suicide e…
Death in the City
Theories of the production and everyday use of space to examine the public suicides of young men and women in symbolic public spaces of Mexico City in the first decades of the twentieth century take center stage in Chapter 5. Individuals that whoopted for a public suicide made self-conscious decisions on how they would die, in particular, choosing the sites of their deaths for their personal and cultural meanings. Attempting to construct their se…
Conclusion
The brief conclusion emphasizes the universality of Mexican attitudes and approaches to death. It refutes the suppositions of post-revolutionary Mexican intellectuals who theorized a unique Mexican character. Thinkers like Samuel Ramos and Octavio Paz—, and more recently, Claudio Lomnitz—have perpetuated a myth that Mexican society can be best defined by death. I wrap up the main arguments of the study of suicide to put to rest the idea that Mexi…
Death in the City
Popular culture has long conflated Mexico with the macabre. Some persuasive intellectuals argue that Mexicans have a special relationship with death, formed in the crucible of their hybrid Aztec-European heritage. Death is their intimate friend; death is mocked and accepted with irony and fatalistic abandon. The commonplace nature of death desensitizes Mexicans to suffering. Death, simply put, defines Mexico. There must have been historical actor…
The Modern Disease
Chapter 4 examines medical and forensic approaches to self-murder. Some Mexican scientists believed the causes of self-murder to be biological and environmental. Others followed Emile Durkheim's arguments and placed its roots squarely in the urban environment. The environment was the modern city—, its rapid work paces, its changing technology, and the increasing alienation of the individual from family, community, and religion. Newspapers adverti…
Death in the City
Death and the City
Poised on the cusp of the twentieth century, many urban citizens believed their societies to be sickened by suicide epidemics. It was assumed that rapid modernization and technological advance caused some individuals to develop nervous conditions that negated their impulses for self-preservation. Although statistical evidence pointed to higher rates of suicide among adult men, society believed that youth and women were most vulnerable to the epid…
Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century. From the colonial period to the present day, women across the Caribbean and Latin America were an intrinsic part of the advancement of society and helped determine the course of history. Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights their varied and important roles over five centuries of time, providing geo…
The Tyranny of Opinion
Pablo Piccato argues convincingly that masculine honor and violence helped create a public sphere in nineteenth-century Mexico. Violence and reputation may seem antithetical to a notion of a public sphere as theorized by Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and others, but Piccato asks his reader to consider a public sphere in Mexico as something uniquely Mexican. Violence, shame, and the not-always-so-free exchange of ideas and…
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis
Barbara L. Voss’s study of colonial settlers in San Francisco, California, during its years as a presidio (1776 – 1821) is a welcome addition to the growing field of North American historical archaeology. What sets her work apart from more conventional studies is her decision to analyze identity within the theoretical framework of ethnogenesis, or “the birthing of new cultural identities” (p. 1), and to focus on the colonists rather than the colo…
Runaway daughters
Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico. Unlike the …
Disobedient Daughters and the Liberal State
Two years in a row (1885 and 1886) Señora Teresa, a native and resident of Oaxaca de Juárez, pleaded with the court to prosecute her daughter's suitors. The first time, after seeing Primitiva chatting with Juan in the street and finding his love letter in her home, she grew apprehensive. She hurried to court when Primitiva disappeared that evening to accuse the young man of seducing and abducting her 13 year old daughter. Police officers apprehen…
The American South in a Global World
Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicit…
Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, and
Reviewed by: Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, and: Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance Kathryn Sloan Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen. By Sarah Hatchuel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. 190. $70.00 cloth. Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance. By Pascale Aebischer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. 221. $65.00 cloth. Adaptations of Shakespeare's works have become the…
Disobedient Daughters and the Liberal State
Two years in a row (1885 and 1886) Señora Teresa, a native and resident of Oaxaca de Juárez, pleaded with the court to prosecute her daughter's suitors. The first time, after seeing Primitiva chatting with Juan in the street and finding his love letter in her home, she grew apprehensive. She hurried to court when Primitiva disappeared that evening to accuse the young man of seducing and abducting her 13 year old daughter. Police officers apprehen…
Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, and
Reviewed by: Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, and: Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance Kathryn Sloan Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen. By Sarah Hatchuel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. 190. $70.00 cloth. Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance. By Pascale Aebischer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. 221. $65.00 cloth. Adaptations of Shakespeare's works have become the…
The American South in a Global World
Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicit…
Disobedient Daughters and the Liberal State
Two years in a row (1885 and 1886) Señora Teresa, a native and resident of Oaxaca de Juárez, pleaded with the court to prosecute her daughter's suitors. The first time, after seeing Primitiva chatting with Juan in the street and finding his love letter in her home, she grew apprehensive. She hurried to court when Primitiva disappeared that evening to accuse the young man of seducing and abducting her 13 year old daughter. Police officers apprehen…
Runaway daughters
Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico. Unlike the …
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis
Barbara L. Voss’s study of colonial settlers in San Francisco, California, during its years as a presidio (1776 – 1821) is a welcome addition to the growing field of North American historical archaeology. What sets her work apart from more conventional studies is her decision to analyze identity within the theoretical framework of ethnogenesis, or “the birthing of new cultural identities” (p. 1), and to focus on the colonists rather than the colo…
Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century. From the colonial period to the present day, women across the Caribbean and Latin America were an intrinsic part of the advancement of society and helped determine the course of history. Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights their varied and important roles over five centuries of time, providing geo…
The Tyranny of Opinion
Pablo Piccato argues convincingly that masculine honor and violence helped create a public sphere in nineteenth-century Mexico. Violence and reputation may seem antithetical to a notion of a public sphere as theorized by Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and others, but Piccato asks his reader to consider a public sphere in Mexico as something uniquely Mexican. Violence, shame, and the not-always-so-free exchange of ideas and…
Death and the City
Poised on the cusp of the twentieth century, many urban citizens believed their societies to be sickened by suicide epidemics. It was assumed that rapid modernization and technological advance caused some individuals to develop nervous conditions that negated their impulses for self-preservation. Although statistical evidence pointed to higher rates of suicide among adult men, society believed that youth and women were most vulnerable to the epid…
Stains of Blood
Chapter 6 dissects how Mexicans processed and came to terms with death, especially tragic deaths of youth. It examines the moral panic that arose regarding youth and their perceived propensity for self-destruction and other violent behaviors. The documentary base of this chapter draws mostly from editorials and media coverage that bemoaned the self-destructive impulses of adolescent Mexicans. Secondly, the chapter contrasts competing attitudes to…
A Social History of Suicide in Mexico City, 1900–1930
Chapter 1 presents an overview of scientific politics and the drive to collect and record moral statistics. Extrapolating from the extant suicide inquests, the chapter also analyzes suicide by gender, time of day and year committed, method, and reasons professed by the victims.
From Corpse to Cadaver
This chapter travels the path of the suicide victim from live body to corpse to cadaver of the suicide victim. Some suicides undertook elaborate measures to prepare their bodies for death. Women, in particular, donned their finest clothing and coiffed their hair. A few of them were determined to leave behind an exquisite corpse. Reporters and medical investigators had the first access to corpses at the scenes of death. Next, police station offici…
Media, Moral Panic, and Youth Suicide
A review of multiple newspaper articles and editorials from the secular and Catholic press, broadsides of José Guadalupe Posada, suicide letters, literature, and poetry, examines the sociocultural meanings of suicide in Mexico to provide the documentary base for Chapter chapter 3. The discussion analyzes the multiple narratives derived from numerous social imaginaries that competed and sometimes cooperated to make sense of the perceived suicide e…
Death in the City
Theories of the production and everyday use of space to examine the public suicides of young men and women in symbolic public spaces of Mexico City in the first decades of the twentieth century take center stage in Chapter 5. Individuals that whoopted for a public suicide made self-conscious decisions on how they would die, in particular, choosing the sites of their deaths for their personal and cultural meanings. Attempting to construct their se…
Conclusion
The brief conclusion emphasizes the universality of Mexican attitudes and approaches to death. It refutes the suppositions of post-revolutionary Mexican intellectuals who theorized a unique Mexican character. Thinkers like Samuel Ramos and Octavio Paz—, and more recently, Claudio Lomnitz—have perpetuated a myth that Mexican society can be best defined by death. I wrap up the main arguments of the study of suicide to put to rest the idea that Mexi…
Death in the City
Popular culture has long conflated Mexico with the macabre. Some persuasive intellectuals argue that Mexicans have a special relationship with death, formed in the crucible of their hybrid Aztec-European heritage. Death is their intimate friend; death is mocked and accepted with irony and fatalistic abandon. The commonplace nature of death desensitizes Mexicans to suffering. Death, simply put, defines Mexico. There must have been historical actor…
The Modern Disease
Chapter 4 examines medical and forensic approaches to self-murder. Some Mexican scientists believed the causes of self-murder to be biological and environmental. Others followed Emile Durkheim's arguments and placed its roots squarely in the urban environment. The environment was the modern city—, its rapid work paces, its changing technology, and the increasing alienation of the individual from family, community, and religion. Newspapers adverti…
Death in the City
Stains of Blood
Jonathan M. Weber, Death is All around Us
Nineteenth-century cities around the world struggled to deal with the realities of the dead and dying. High mortality rates, rapid industrialization and urbanization, and rural-urban migration contributed to the onslaught of public health issues related to the infectious living and decaying bodies. Literally, corpses littered the public spaces and the morgues of the modernizing city. Likewise, a marker of civilization and modernity correlated to …
Nora E. Jaffary. Abortion in Mexico
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