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Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Jocelyn H. Olcott
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Paperback. A history of women's political organizing and state formation in Mexico before and during the populist regime of Cardenas, challenging assumptions that all Mexican women were conservative and anti-revolutionary Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 photos, 4 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
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.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822336655
SKU
V9780822336655
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About Jocelyn H. Olcott
Jocelyn Olcott is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.
Reviews for Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
“Jocelyn Olcott’s book combines impressive original research, lucid exposition, and keen insight. Three valuable case studies offer broad comparative analysis informed by telling details, examples, and anecdotes. Above all, the book successfully blends innovative women’s history with big, old, unresolved questions about popular mobilization, state-building, and the rise and fall of Cardenismo.”—Alan Knight, author of The Mexican Revolution “This book ... Read more