The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953

by Mitchell, Stephanie E.; Schell, Patience A.

• ISBN13: 9780742537309
• ISBN10: 0742537307
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. Drawing on a variety of perspectives, the volume illuminates the ways women variously accepted, contested, used, and manipulated the revolutionary project. Recovering narratives that have been virtually written out of the historical record, this book brings us a rich and complex array of women's experiences in the revolutionary and post-revolutionary era in Mexico.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Faces of Rebellion: From Revolutionaries to Veterans in Nationalist Mexico	p. 15
Primary Document: Letter Regarding the Political-Revolutionary Activities of Senora Guadalupe Narvaez Bautista	p. 20
Educating the Mothers of the Nation: The Project of Revolutionary Education in Yucatan	p. 37
Primary Document: A Report from the Chief of the Revolutionary Office of Information and Propaganda (1915)	p. 42
Challenging Legal and Gender Constraints in Mexico: Sofia Villa de Buentello's Criticism of Family Legislation, 1917-1927	p. 53
Primary Document: An Extract from Sofia Villa de Buentello's La mujer y la ley (Mexico, 1921)	p. 62
The Meaning of the Women's Vote in Mexico, 1917-1953	p. 73
Primary Document: A Letter from Margarita Robles de Mendoza to Plutarco Elias Calles	p. 84
Of the Sublime Mission of Mothers of Families: The Union of Mexican Catholic Ladies in Revolutionary Mexico	p. 99
Primary Document: Of the High and Sublime Mission of Mothers of Families	p. 105
Theater of Operations: Reform Politics and the Battle for Prostitutes' Redemption at Revolutionary Mexico City's Syphilis Hospital	p. 125
Primary Document: Hospital Morelos	p. 141
"The Proletarian Women Will Make the Social Revolution": Female Participation in the Veracruz Rent Strike, 1922-1927	p. 151
Primary Document: Excerpts from "I, Woman in the Ideal"	p. 157
Por la liberacion de la mujer: Women and the Anti-Alcohol Campaign	p. 165
Primary Document: Letter from Anti-alcohol and Anticlerical Committee of Nahuatzen, Michoacan to President Lazaro Cardenas	p. 173
Improving Mothers: Poverty, the Family, and "Modern" Social Assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950	p. 187
Primary Document: Call to the Women of Mexico	p. 194
Conclusion	p. 205
Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading	p. 217
Index	p. 225
About the Contributors	p. 231
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