Article
French
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10.4000/amerika.3573>
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DOI: <
10.4000/amerika.3573>
Abstract
The commercial Mexican press contributed to the construction of new sexual and gender identities by giving a voice to feminist militants and intellectuals on their editorial boards and granting them considerable freedom of expression. The role of these collaborators consisted in disseminating new ideas concerning women, gender relations, sexual education and family planning and confronting these issues with the political discourse. Our content analysis of a selection of articles culled from the most important Mexican newspapers of the 1970s (Novedades, El Universal, Unomásuno), will illustrate the strategies that were put in place by two feminist militant intellectuals, E. Urrutia and M. Lamas. On the one hand their strategies aimed to decipher the shortcomings of the official discourse relating to sexual policy under the presidencies of Luis Echeverría Álvarez and José Lopez Portillo, and on the other hand to propose feminist analysis of sexuality within cultural practices.