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Fearless women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War / Tabea Alexa Linhard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linhard, Tabea Alexa, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women revolutionaries--Mexico.
- Women revolutionaries.
- Women revolutionaries--Spain.
- Mexico--History--Revolution, 1923-1924--Women.
- Mexico.
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Women.
- Spain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Study of the role women played in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Examines female figures such as the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution and the milicianas of the Spanish Civil War and the intersection of gender, revolution, and culture in both the Mexican and the Spanish contexts"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The haunting pain of a phantom limb
- Between losing and killing fear
- Discursive battlefields
- Death stories
- Adelita's death
- The "Trece Rosas" and other death stories
- Writing violence
- Dancing with Pancho Villa's head : Nellie Campobello's Cartucho
- In the shadows : María Teresa León's short stories
- A remainder and a reminder
- To remember is a ghostly verb
- Who will talk about us when we are dead?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6498-0
- OCLC:
- 191935585
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