Jocelyn H Olcott

Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336532
• ISBN-10: 0822336537
• Artikelnr.: 21083004

Autorenporträt

Jocelyn Olcott

Inhaltsangabe

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