Death in the City - Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29031-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 272 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Violence in Latin American History

At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the morgue, and the media reported on sensational cases of murder and suicide. More troublesome still, a compelling death wish appeared to grip women and youth. Drawing on a range of sources from judicial records to the popular press, Death in the City investigates the cultural meanings of self-destruction in modern Mexico. The author examines responses to suicide and death and disproves the long-held belief that Mexicans possess a cavalier attitude toward suffering.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloan, Kathryn A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • A Social History of Suicide in Mexico City, 1900–1930
2 • From Corpse to Cadaver: Suicide and the Forensic Gaze
3 • Media, Moral Panic, and Youth Suicide
4 • The Modern Disease: Medical Meanings and Approaches to Suicide
5 • Death in the City: Suicide and Public Space
6 • Stains of Blood: Death, Vernacular Mourning, and Suicide
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn A. Sloan is Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Women’s Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean.