In Mexico’s Defense: Dueling, Diplomacy, Gender and Honor, 1876–1940

TitleIn Mexico’s Defense: Dueling, Diplomacy, Gender and Honor, 1876–1940
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsKiddle, Amelia M.
JournalMexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
Volume31
Issue1
Pagination22-47
Abstract

This article examines Mexican diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and argues that a transnational code of honor rooted in the practice of dueling governed diplomats’ behavior. It demonstrates that, in spite of domestic reforms that exalted the incorporation of the masses and the empowerment of women in revolutionary Mexico, diplomats continued to participate in the diplomatic culture of dueling—both actual and journalistic—that feminized the nation and perpetuated patriarchy within the diplomatic corps. 

URLhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/msem.2015.31.1.22
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