Gender and the Mexican Revolution : Yucatan women and the realities of patriarchy / Stephanie J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Stephanie J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women revolutionaries--Mexico--Yucatan (State)--History--20th century.

Women revolutionaries.

Women political activists--Mexico--Yucatan (State)--History--20th century.

Women political activists.

Political participation--Mexico--Yucatan (State)--History--20th century.

Political participation.

Women's rights--Mexico--Yucatan (State)--History--20th century.

Women's rights.

Yucatán (Mexico : State)--Politics and government--1910-1946.

Yucatán (Mexico : State).

Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The state of Yucatán is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Smith says that despite the intervention of women at many levels of Yucatecan society, the rigid definition of women's 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.

Contents:

Women and the radical revolutionary laboratory

Redefining women : the making of a revolution

Broken promises, broken hearts : the revolutionary judicial system

Honor and morality : the church, the state, and the control of Yucatecan families

If love enslaves

love be damned! : divorce and revolutionary state formation in Yucatán

Women in public and public women : prostitutes in revolutionary Yucatán.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908833-3-9

979-88-9313-332-5

0-8078-8866-4

0-8078-8865-6

1-4696-0575-9

OCLC:

456569280