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- Title
Miss Mexico's Dress: The Struggle over Reproductive Governance in Jalisco, Mexico.
- Authors
Morgan, Lynn M.
- Abstract
When a controversy erupted over the design of Miss Mexico's pageant dress in 2007, it was not immediately clear how the dispute was related to abortion politics. This article analyzes the gown—a paean to the Cristero rebellion that took place in central‐western Mexico between 1926 and 1929—as part of a concerted effort on the part of Catholic activists in Jalisco to revive memories of the Cristero rebellion and to frame the legalization of abortion in Mexico City as another chapter in a long history of religious persecution. Abortion, I argue, is one vehicle through which the distinctions between secular and religious rule are constituted in post‐priísta Mexico. The significance of Miss Mexico's dress shows how clerical and anticlerical tensions came to center on contestations over sexual and reproductive rights, and how reproductive governance in Mexico is predicated on long‐simmering tensions between secularists and sectarianists. [Mexico, gender politics, Catholic Church, reproductive rights, Cristero rebellion]
- Subjects
JALISCO (Mexico); ABORTION policy; REPRODUCTIVE rights; PERSECUTION; CATHOLIC Church
- Publication
Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 2, p536
- ISSN
1935-4932
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jlca.12427