Description: Gender and the Mexican Revolution : Yucatan Women and the Realities of Patriarchy, Paperback by Smith, Stephanie J., ISBN 0807859532, ISBN-13 9780807859537, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Stephanie Smith examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break womens ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women shaped these developments.
Smith analyzes the various regulations introduced by Yucatans two revolution-era governors, Salvador Alvarado and Felipe Carrillo Puerto. Like many revolutionary leaders throughout Mexico, the Yucatan policy makers professed allegiance to womens rights and socialist principles. Yet they, too, passed laws and condoned legal practices that excluded women from equal participation and reinforced their inferior status.
Using court cases brought by ordinary women, including those of Mayan descent, Smith demonstrates the importance of womens agency during the Mexican Revolution. But, she says, despite the intervention of women at many levels of Yucatecan society, the rigid definition of womens social roles as strictly that of wives and mothers within the Mexican nation guaranteed that long-term, substantial gains remained out of reach for most women for years to come.
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Book Title: Gender and the Mexican Revolution : Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Latin America / Mexico, Political Process / General, Women in Politics, Gender Studies, Revolutionary, Civil Rights, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Women's Studies
Publication Year: 2009
Illustrator: Yes
Features: New Edition
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Stephanie J. Smith
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
