Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

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 Yucat n, the central state of Michoac n, 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.

Author: Jocelyn H. Olcott
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/17/2006
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.34w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780822336655

About the Author

Jocelyn Olcott is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.