Meet Me at Sanborns: Labor, Leisure, Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Mexico

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dc.contributor.advisorRubenstein, Anne G.
dc.creatorChrisman, Kevin Michael
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T14:45:37Z
dc.date.available2019-03-05T14:45:37Z
dc.date.copyright2018-10-01
dc.date.issued2019-03-05
dc.date.updated2019-03-05T14:45:37Z
dc.degree.disciplineHistory
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is a cultural history about Sanborns, a Mexican business that began as a drugstore in 1903. It continues into the present as a national chain of restaurants and department stores owned by the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Each chapter explores different topics of analysis: modernity, consumerism, and upper-class leisure culture; revolutionary masculinity and racial politics; food, commodities, and Mexican nationalism; working-class labor struggles and company paternalism, and urban sexuality. The dissertation examines how everyday life created and was created by post-Revolutionary Mexicos changing gender ideologies, evolving nationalist culture, and openness to foreign capital. It argues that the Sanborns chain has been an essential site of contestation and redefinition of gender roles across Mexico. Tracing the development of Sanborns contributes to the discussion of Mexicos national culture during the twentieth-century. Commercial retailers and spaces of consumption helped shape Mexicos urban landscape and consumer identities. The popularity of Sanborns was shaped by local consumer tastes and global technologies as they developed over time. My work describes the collaboration and conflict between Sanborns and its customers who used the floor space in their own way; the store began as a place of leisure for Mexicos upper-class but evolved into a sexual space shared among classes. Sanborns also became an important intermediary connecting U.S. manufacturers with Mexicos developing consumer culture, and U.S. tourists with folkloric Mexican handicrafts. The fieldwork conducted for this project took place in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Acapulco. It incorporates the narratives of historical actors from a wide range of class and race positions. Source material for this project included government documents, company ephemera, business licenses, internal business documents, personal letters, advertisements, periodicals, photographs, film, novels, and other print media. The dissertation also incorporated ethnographic research from oral interviews with company employees and Sanborns customers.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35825
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subject.keywordscultural history
dc.subject.keywordsMexican history
dc.subject.keywordsSanborns
dc.subject.keywordsSexuality
dc.subject.keywordsGender
dc.subject.keywordsLabor
dc.subject.keywordsmodernity
dc.subject.keywordsconsumerism
dc.subject.keywordscommodities
dc.subject.keywordsZapatistas
dc.subject.keywordsHouse of Tiles
dc.subject.keywordsCasa de los Azulejos
dc.subject.keywordsMexico City
dc.subject.keywordsbusiness
dc.subject.keywordsdepartment store
dc.subject.keywordsrestaurant
dc.subject.keywordscoffee house
dc.subject.keywordsqueer
dc.subject.keywordsnationalism
dc.subject.keywordsCarlos Slim
dc.subject.keywordsurban sexuality
dc.subject.keywordsnational culture
dc.subject.keywordsnational identity
dc.subject.keywordsfood history
dc.subject.keywordsdrugstore
dc.subject.keywordsWalgreens
dc.subject.keywordsDenny's
dc.subject.keywordsMonterrey
dc.subject.keywordsAcapulco
dc.subject.keywordstechnology
dc.subject.keywordsMexico's middle-class
dc.subject.keywordsU.S. tourism
dc.subject.keywordsconsumer culture
dc.subject.keywordsMexican handicrafts
dc.subject.keywordssilver
dc.subject.keywordsSanborn
dc.subject.keywordsJack Johnson
dc.subject.keywordsupper-class
dc.subject.keywordsmodern mexico
dc.subject.keywordsMexican Revolution
dc.subject.keywordsSanborns waitress
dc.subject.keywordsmesera de Sanborn
dc.subject.keywordslabor strike
dc.subject.keywordspaternalism
dc.subject.keywordsworking women
dc.subject.keywordsmale cruising
dc.subject.keywordsgay sanborns
dc.subject.keywordsbathroom
dc.subject.keywordspolice violence
dc.subject.keywordscafeteria
dc.subject.keywordssoda fountain
dc.subject.keywordsJuan Gabriel
dc.subject.keywordsluis zapata
dc.subject.keywordsmagazines
dc.subject.keywordscoffee
dc.titleMeet Me at Sanborns: Labor, Leisure, Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Mexico
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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