Deviance, Manliness, and Working-Class Citizenship: Mexico City 1900–10

“Deviance, Manliness, and Working-Class Citizenship, Mexico City 1900-1910”

Abstract:

“Deviance, Manliness, and Working-Class Citizenship” analyzes the ways in which turn-of-the-century Mexico City penny press editors exploited the productive tensions between proper and improper behavior for working-class men. In these satiric exposés of everyday life among the capital’s chronically underemployed male workers, the improper behavior of working-class men served to confound the conventional image of the well-behaved male citizen-subject by confronting bourgeois civic virtue with popular resistance to bourgeois prescription as a form of class privilege.