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complicates the notion of the feminization of charity by exploring its gendered dimensions. By showing the resurgence of
Catholic lay organizations and the limitations of public social welfare institutions, it also contradicts the dominant narrative of the decline of religion and the construction of
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focuses more squarely on the creation and persistence of historical fictions. Providing the first biography of an iconic
Mexican woman, it also traces her subsequent journey from history to myth in the 20th and 21st centuries, thus highlighting the gap between history and popular memory.
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Arrom has published on groups and issues that have largely been ignored in traditional accounts, including women, gender, the family, social welfare, popular politics, and the poor, with particular attention to the nineteenth century. She is known for her 1985 book,
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She was elected honorary president of the XVI Reunión
Internacional de Historiadores de México (XVI International Reunion of Historians of Mexico), only the third woman to be so honored since the organization's founding in 1949.
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In her interview with
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program in Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies. After becoming Professor Emerita in 2013, she continued lecturing, writing books, and collaborating with Mexican colleagues on research projects.
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Arrom has published four monographs, three edited volumes, and numerous scholarly articles on Latin
American social and legal history, especially of Mexico from 1770–1910.
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Voluntarios por una causa: Género, fe y caridad en México desde la
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co-edited with Servando Ortoll. Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996. Spanish edition:
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Para contener al pueblo: El Hospicio de Pobres de la ciudad de México, 1774–1871
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Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America, 1765–1910,
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Ayala Flores, Hubonor; Ayala Flores, Hubonor (15 June 2018).
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La mujer mexicana ante el divorcio eclesiástico, (1800–1857)
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