RAISED VOICES IN THE CINE MONTECARLO - SEX-EDUCATION, MASS-MEDIA, ANDOPPOSITIONAL POLITICS IN MEXICO

This article closely reads a single protest by a small group of male h igh school students in Mexico City, 1934. The protestors interrupted a movie to voice their opposition to sex education in the public school s (a new program that had inspired widespread controversy bat was neve r instituted). This protest represented wider tensions over post-Revol utionary modernization and urbanization, particularly in its effects o n children and families. it marked the moment when these tensions ceas ed to focus on government policies directly and turned toward oppositi on to media representations of social transformations.