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Informationen zum Autor Jocelyn Olcott Klappentext "This book is extraordinarily important as a work of feminist political history. It's a breathtakingly ambitious tour of Mexican women's movements and feminist politics that will stand as a model for future histories of Latin American feminism and state formation."--Heidi Tinsman, author of "Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973" Zusammenfassung 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 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
