Olcott / Wiegman / Grewal Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8735-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

A history of women's political organizing and state formation in Mexico before and during the populist regime of Cardenas, challenging assumptions that all Mexican women were conservative and anti-revolutionary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olcott, Jocelyn H.

Wiegman, Robyn

Grewal, Inderpal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. The Daughters of La Malinche: Gender and Revolutionary Citizenship 1

1. “A Right to Struggle”: Revolutionary Citizenship and the Birth of Mexican Feminism 27

2. Laboratory of Cardenismo: Constructing Michoacán’s Postrevolutionary Edifice 60

3. Educators and Organizers: Populating the National Women’s Movement 93

4. “All the Benefits of the Revolution”: Labor and Citizenship in the Comarca Lagunera 123

5. “Her Dignity as a Woman and Her Sovereignty as Citizen”: Claiming Revolutionary Citizenship 159

6. “All Are Avowed Socialists”: Political Conflict and Women’s Organizing in Yucatán 201

Conclusions and Epilogue: The Death of Cardenismo 232

Notes 245

Bibliography 287

Index 321

Über Autor(innen)

Jocelyn Olcott is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.