This essay narrates an historical episode that happened with the winner of Miss Mexico 1928, in which she killed her own husband in the year after. This story is not just another anecdote about life in the Mexican post revolution, but a story that reflects clearly the transitions that women lived in these years in which modernization came closer. The important part about this is how these social, cultural and legal changes were projected and gave women a meaning and their freedom wanting phase, in which the military and political life was showed in a different way. This is a case study that helps to observe in a clear and justified way, through photographic images, the transformations in the agitated daily life in Mexico, from the point of view of Gender History and approaches of Cultural History.
Cultural History; Gender History; Mariticide; Mexico; Photography
