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Author Olcott, Jocelyn, 1970- author.

Title Revolutionary women in postrevolutionary Mexico / Jocelyn Olcott
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 337 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Next wave
Next wave (Duke University Press)
Contents Introduction : the daughters of La Malinche : gender and revolutionary citizenship -- "A right to struggle" : revolutionary citizenship and the birth of Mexican feminism -- Laboratory of Cardenismo : constructing Michoacán's postrevolutionary edifice -- Educators and organizers : populating the national women's movement -- "All the benefits of the Revolution" : labor and citizenship in the Comarca Lagunera -- "Her dignity as woman and her sovereignty as citizen" : claiming postrevolutionary citizenship -- "All are avowed socialists" : political conflict and women's organizing in Yucatán -- Conclusions and epilogue : the death of Cardenismo
Summary Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico" is an empirically rich history of women's political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing beliefs about the masculine foundations of citizenship. Piecing together material from national and regional archives, popular journalism, and oral histories, Olcott examines how women inhabited the conventionally manly role of citizen by weaving together its quotidian and formal traditions, drawing strategies from local political struggles and competing gender ideologies. Olcott demonstrates an extraordinary grasp of the complexity of postrevolutionary Mexican politics, exploring the goals and outcomes of women's organizing in Mexico City and the port city of Acapulco as well as in three rural locations: the southeastern state of Yucatan, the central state of Michoacan, and the northern region of the Comarca Lagunera. Combining the strengths of national and regional approaches, this comparative perspective sets in relief the specificities of citizenship as a lived experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-319) and index
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Caldecott Honor Book, 2001
Subject Women revolutionaries -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Women political activists -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Political participation -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Feminism -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Feminism
Military participation -- Female
Political participation
Politics and government
Women political activists
Women revolutionaries
Frauenbewegung
Vrouwen.
Politieke participatie.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Participation, Female
Subject Mexico
Mexiko
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822387350
0822387352
0822336537
9780822336532