Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953

Stephanie E. Mitchell is director of the women's and gender studies program and assistant professor of history at Carthage College. Patience A. Schell is lecturer in Latin American cultural studies at the University of Manchester.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Chapter 1: The Faces of Rebellion: From Revolutionaries to Veterans in Nationalist MexicoChapter 3 Primary document: Letter Regarding the Political-Revolutionary Activities of Señora Guadalupe Narvaez BautistaPart 4 Chapter 2: Educating the Mothers of the Nation: The Project of Revolutionary Education in Yucatán 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: Sofía Villa's Criticism of Family Legislation, 1917-1927Chapter 7 Primary document: An Extract from Sofia Villa de Buentello's La mujer y la leyPart 8 Chapter 4: The Meaning of the Women's Vote in Mexico: 1917-1953Chapter 9 Primary document: A Letter From Margarita Robles de Mendoza to Plutarco Elías CallesPart 10 Chapter 5: Of the Sublime Mission of Mothers of Families: The Union of Mexican Catholic Ladies in Revolutionary MexicoChapter 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 HospitalChapter 13 Primary document: Hospital MorelosPart 14 Chapter 7: "The Proletarian Women Will Make the Social Revolution:" Female Participation in the Veracruz Rent Strike, 1922-1927Chapter 15 Primary document: Excerpts from, "I, Woman in the Ideal"Part 16 Chapter 8: Por la liberación de la mujer: Women and the Anti-Alcohol CampaignChapter 17 Primary document: Letter from Antialcohol and Anticlerical Commottee of Nahuatzen, Michoacán to President Lázaro CárdenasPart 18 Chapter 9: Improving Mothers: Poverty, the Family, and "Modern" Social Assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950Chapter 19 Primary document: Call to the Women of México Part 20 Conclusion

Through nine impressively crafted essays, the authors investigate numerous and various ways women shaped revolutionary activism in Mexico from 1910 to 1953….Through innovative investigations of temperance workers, teachers, prostitutes, urban elite women, female military veterans, and other women, this important book reveals how the revolution created new opportunities for women to become social actors while broadening their contributions in areas traditionally reserved for women. The essays reveal that as the government expanded its role in people's lives, crossing into sectors previously regarded as "the women's sphere," women became more influential in crafting the revolutionary agenda. An important consequence of the book is the recognition that additional critical investigations of women will reshape contemporary interpretations of the revolution. Such an expanded analysis has had other significant results, including a broader interpretation of feminism in Mexico, the ways gender roles are considered and evaluated, and how women's history in Mexico might be more expansively studied. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals.