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Moving portraits of eighteen women hailing from Texas and Mexico who revolutionized their worlds
List of contents
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Reflections on Revolutionary Women -- Dolores Huerta
Preface – Kathy Sosa
Introduction: Setting the Scene of Revolutionary Women in Texas and Mexico
– Jennifer Speed
Section I: The Era of the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Las Soldaderas – Elena Poniatowska
Juana Belèn Gutièrrez de Mendoza – Cristina D. Ramírez
Valentinas, no! Valientas, si! Cristina Sosa and Leonila Ortiz Sosa [AM1] – Lionel Sosa
The Perservationists: Adina DeZavala, Rena Maverick Green, Emily Edwards – Lewis F. Fisher
Concepcion Acevedo de la Llata – Jennifer Speed
Section II: Las Antepasadas : Women Revolutionaries prior to the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz – Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Virgin of Guadalupe – Virgilio P. Elizondo
Jane McManus Cazneau – Linda Hudson
Teresa Urrea – Sandra Cisneros
Malinalli La Malinche – Laura Esquivel
Section III: The Legacy : Women Revolutionaries of the Post-Revolution Era
Alice Dickerson Montemayor – Cynthia Orozoco
Emma Tenayuca – Carmen Tafolla
Frida Kahlo – Amalia Mesa-Bains
Genoveva Morales –Elaine Ayala
Nahui Olin – Teresa Van Hoy
Gloria Anzaldúa – Ellen Riojas Clark
Chavela Vargas – Sandra Cisneros
Women of Guerrero – Marta Lamas
Epilogue: title TK – Norma Cantú
About the author
Lionel Sosa is an independent marketing consultant and a nationally known portrait artist. He has served on the teams of eight national presidential campaigns, on the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, and on the boards of Sesame Workshop, PBS, and the Briscoe Western Art Museum, and other organizations. He is the author or coauthor of five books, including El Vaquero Real: The Original American Cowboy. Sosa and his wife, Kathy Sosa, recently produced the documentary Children of the Revolución: How the Mexican Revolution Changed America’s Destiny, a twenty-part series chronicling the history of the Texas/Mexico borderland.
Summary
Moving portraits of eighteen women hailing from Texas and Mexico who revolutionized their worlds
Foreword
Regional Texas tour in San Antonio; Austin; Dallas and Houston
Texas Book Festival in Austin and San Antonio Book Festival
Grassroots outreach to cultural and women's groups
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"History buffs, look no further! This beautiful volume begins to fill in gaps in collective Texas and Mexico history with eighteen portraits of revolutionary women. Some were soldiers, others were artists, all were badass." — Ms. Magazine
"Offers a feminist take on our state’s history. " — Texas Monthly
"Reclaims names that should be known for history." — San Antonio Express-News
"A revelatory journey about female power in Texas and Mexico." — Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"These women were revolutionaries who changed San Antonio and beyond." — Texas Public Radio
"A multi-genre approach." — San Antonio Report"Military history is often told from a male perspective. But a new book about the Mexican Revolution aims to change that.... Learning and sharing this history is important because, after all, it’s Texas’ history, too." — Texas Standard
"It's a rare and vibrant genre puzzle that mixes non-fiction with personal stories and illustrations to draw the portraits of women who were relevant before, during and after the Revolution." — AL DÍA
"The collection is built around the oft-overlooked women heroes of the Mexican Revolution but also celebrates the Virgen de Guadalupe, nun and writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, labor leader Emma Tenayuca, iconic painter Frida Kahlo and 14 others through the eyes of authors including Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Tafolla, Elaine Ayala, Laura Esquivel and Amalia Mesa-Bains." — San Antonio Current
"Celebrates women who refused to walk a traditional path." — Houston Public Radio
