The Women's Revolution: Mexico, 1900-1953

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Chapter 1: Faces of Rebellion: From Revolutionaries to Veterans in Nationalist Mexico Chapter 3 Primary document: Letter Regarding the Political-Revolutionary Activities of Senora Guadalupe Narvaez Bautista Part 4 Chapter 2: Educating the Mothers of the Nation: Project of Revolutionary Education in Yucatan Chapter 5 Primary document: A report from the Chief of the Revolutionary Office of Information and Propaganda (1915) Part 6 Chapter 3: Challenging Legal and Gender Constraints: Sofia Villa's Criticism of Family Legislation, 1917-1927 Chapter 7 Primary document: An Extract from Sofia Villa de Buentello's La mujer y la ley Part 8 Chapter 4: Meaning of the Women's Vote in Mexico: 1917-1953 Chapter 9 Primary document: A Letter From Margarita Robles de Mendoza to Plutarco Elias Calles Part 10 Chapter 5: Of the Sublime Mission of Mothers of Families: Union of Mexican Catholic Ladies in Revolutionary Mexico Chapter 11 Primary document: On the High and Sublime Mission of Mothers of Families Part 12 Chapter 6: Theatre of Operations: Reform Politics and the Battle for Prostitutes' Redemption at Revolutionary Mexico City's Syphilis Hospital Chapter 13 Primary document: Hospital Morelos Part 14 Chapter 7: The Proletarian Women Will Make the Social Revolution: Female Participation in the Veracruz Rent Strike, 1922-1927 Chapter 15 Primary document: Excerpts from, I, Woman in the Ideal Part 16 Chapter 8: Por la liberacion de la mujer: Women and the Anti-Alcohol Campaign Chapter 17 Primary document: Letter from Antialcohol and Anticlerical Commottee of Nahuatzen, Michoacan to President Lazaro Cardenas Part 18 Chapter 9: Improving Mothers: Poverty, the Family, and Modern Social Assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950 Chapter 19 Primary document: Call to the Women of Mexico Part 20 Conclusion