Name Elaine Carey | ||
Books Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico Education Florida State University, University of New Mexico | ||
Elaine Carey and Julia Brookins: The Past, Present, and Future of the AHA Tuning Project
Elaine Carey is an associate professor of history at St. John's University in Queens, New York, whose research and teaching into feminist history are ongoing.
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Biography
Carey attended Florida State University, where she received her B.A. in International Affairs and her master's degree in Latin American history and European history. She received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in Latin American History and Women’s History.
She received post-doctoral fellowships including the Fulbright-Garcia Robles fellowship. Carey taught, from 1998 to 2002, both Latin American and women’s history at the University of Detroit Mercy. She has taught at St. John's since September 2002, and has attained the rank of associate professor.
Scholarship
Carey's most significant work has been the study of the Mexico 68 movement, and how it has affected the women involved. According to Carey, the female participants in the movement of Mexico 68 lived through an intense social experience and a sudden expansion of their expectations as citizens and as women. Because of this, feminist ideas started to spread and grow stronger. At the time, government officials tended to focus on the men in the movement, and, as a result of this discrimination, men became the target of the government during the crackdown of October 2, 1968, leaving women behind. This gave female members the opportunity to keep the movement alive, determining its direction in the ensuing years.
She is the author of two books, including a new book she is writing,Selling is more of a Habit: Women and Drug Trafficking, 1900–1970, as well as other scholarly works. She is participating in the Women and Theatre Program at Teatro Pregones in the South Bronx.