Pan American women : U.S. internationalists and revolutionary Mexico / Megan Threlkeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Threlkeld, Megan, author.

Series:

Politics and culture in modern America.

Politics and Culture in Modern America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the years following World War I, women activists in the United States and Europe saw themselves as leaders of a globalizing movement to promote women's rights and international peace. In hopes of advancing alliances, U.S. internationalists such as Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Doris Stevens reached across the border to their colleagues in Mexico, including educator Margarita Robles de Mendoza and feminist Hermila Galindo. They established new organizations, sponsored conferences, and rallied for peaceful relations between the two countries. But diplomatic tensions and the ongoing Mexican Revolution complicated their efforts. In Pan American Women, Megan Threlkeld chronicles the clash of political ideologies between U.S. and Mexican women during an era of war and revolution. Promoting a "human internationalism" (in the words of Addams), U.S. women overestimated the universal acceptance of their ideas. They considered nationalism an ethos to be overcome, while the revolutionary spirit of Mexico inspired female citizens there to embrace ideas and reforms that focused on their homeland. Although U.S. women gradually became less imperialistic in their outlook and more sophisticated in their organizational efforts, they could not overcome the deep divide between their own vision of international cooperation and Mexican women's nationalist aspirations. Pan American Women exposes the tensions of imperialism, revolutionary nationalism, and internationalism that challenged women's efforts to build an inter-American movement for peace and equality, in the process demonstrating the importance of viewing women's political history through a wider geographic lens.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Best Kind of Internationalism

Chapter 2. The Pan American Conference of Women

Chapter 3. The Limits of Human Internationalism

Chapter 4. The Peace with Mexico Campaign

Chapter 5. Politicizing Internationalism

Chapter 6. Not Such Good Neighbors

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-237) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 26, 2014).

ISBN:

9780812290028

081229002X

OCLC:

889268836