The women's revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953 / edited by Stephanie Mitchell and Patience A. Schell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.

The faces of rebellion: from revolutionaries to Veterans in nationalist Mexico / Martha Eva Rocha -- Educating the mothers of the nation: the project of revolutionary education in Yucatán / Stephanie J. Smith -- Challenging legal and gender constraints in Mexico: Sofía Villa de Buentello's criticism of family legislation, 1917-1927 / Carmen Ramos Escandón -- The meaning of the women's vote in Mexico, 1917-1953 / Sarah A. Buck -- Of the sublime mission of mothers of families: the union of Mexican Catholic ladies in Revolutionary Mexico / Patience A. Schell -- Theater of operations: reform politics and the battle for prostitutes' redemption at revolutionary Mexico City's syphilis hospital / Katherine Elaine Bliss -- "The proletarian women will make the social revolution": female participation in the Veracruz rent strike, 1922-1927 / Andrew Grant Wood -- Por la liberatión de la mujer: women and the anti-alcohol campaign / Stephanie Mitchell -- Improving mothers: poverty, the family, and "modern" social assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950 / Nichole Sanders.

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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.

English.

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