Motherhood In Mexican Cinema 19411991 The Transformation Of Femininity On Screen

"How were femininity and motherhood understood in Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the early 1990s? Film analysis, interviews, articles, and reviews are used to answer the question and trace the changes. Images of mothers in films are contrasted with those of mothers in Mexican classical films (1935-1950) and in Mexican films from the 1970s and 1980s"--