This week we're traveling to turn-of-the-century Mexico with the Dance of the 41! Join us as we learn about opinion polling, Amada Diaz, euphemisms for homosexuality, and more!

Sources:

Tom W. Smith, "The First Straw? A Study of the Origins of Election Polls," Public Opinion Quarterly 54 (1990) Campbell Rhodes, "A Brief History of Opinion Polls," Available at https://www.moadoph.gov.au/explore/stories/history/a-brief-history-of-opinion-polls Manuel Bettancourt Review, Dance of the 41, Variety. Available at https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dance-of-the-forty-one-review-el-baile-de-los-41-1234983809/ Rotten Tomatoes, available at https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dance_of_the_41

Lucas E. Espinoza and Rosalva Resendiz, "Los Secretos de la Redada de los 41: A Sociohistorical Analysis of a Gay Signifier," NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings, 6 (2018). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1197&context=naccs Thaddeus Morgan, "41 Has a Secret Meaning in Mexico, Thanks to a Queer Underground Ball," History, https://www.history.com/news/dance-of-41-mexico-gay-history Carlos Monsiváis, "De las variedades de la experincia homoerotica," Debate Feminista 35, (2007): 163-92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42624981 Carlos Monsiváis, Renato Leduc, "Los iguales, los semejantes, los (hasta hace un minuto) perfectos desconocidos (A cien años de la Redada de los 41)," Debate Feminista 24 (2001): 301-27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42625415 Milada Bazant, "Cronica de un Baile Clandestino," in Tradiciones y conflictos: historias de la vido cotidiana en Mexico e Hispanoamerica eds. Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuro and Milada Bazant (El Colegio de Mexico). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv47wbxj.14

Google Ngram, "Amor Socratico": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=amor+socr%C3%A1tico&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=es-2019&smoothing=3 Edward Carpenter, "Homogenic Love and its Place in a Free Society," 1894, full text available at https://archive.org/details/homogenic-love-and-its-place-in-a-free-s/page/n3/mode/2up Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics, and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, Third Edition. Pearson, 2012