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Hello everyone. I'm new to the list. My name is Lisa Brown, and I'm a
MPhil student at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of
Sussex, UK.

Currently, I'm working on a dissertation on "Contraceptive technologies,
development process and performance art", looking specifically at Mexico.
It entails looking at population policies in Mexico and promotion of family
planning through the mass media and social marketing. I will not be arguing
against family planning but rather positing a feminist critique of the way it
is promoted through the media as part of a political project without
addressing other inequalities including unequal gender relation and the way
that experiments are carried out on rural Mexican women.

I will also touch on research that has been done on new contraceptive
technologies in Mexican communities. I am interested in the role of the mass
media in this area (in terms of soap operas, radio song) and then intend to
go beyond media marketing and look at the role of popular
theatre/radio/music as a means of representing the wider socio-political
picture, and as a vehicle for consciousness raising and resistance (this does
not specifically need to be about family planning messages, but can focus on
Mexican plays, songs, poetry, or drama groups that have a political message
for change).

I would be interested in readings, information or suggestions of people I
could speak to (either here or in Mexico). I have been reading about a
1970's soap opera called Ven Comingo, and some pop songs called Cuando
Estemos Juntos and Detente. Does anyone know of these, or of where I
could get the lyrics? On the theatre section, I have only found historical
information on the Corridos and on the Teatro Campesino sponsored by the
government from 1920-50, and the Trashumante Theatre sponsored by
Mexican Social Security in the 1960s. Does anyone know more about these,
or about what has happened recently, particularly since the onset of Mexico's
population policies in the 1970s?.

I have have a list of some journal articles which we don't have in our library
collection here at IDS. A friend from Winchester University suggested I
might be able to get some through this list: is that correct?

Thanks in advance for any help.


Lisa Brown: IDPC5@sussex.ac.uk