Catholic women and Mexican politics, 1750-1940 / Margaret Chowning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chowning, Margaret, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Catholic women--Political activity--Mexico--History.

Catholic women.

Cofradías (Latin America)--Mexico.

Cofradías (Latin America).

Church and state--Mexico--History.

Church and state.

Mexico--Religious life and customes.

Mexico.

Mexico--Politics and government--1810-.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political lifeWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in the untold story of how the Mexican Catholic church in the nineteenth century excluded, then accepted, and then came to depend on women as leaders in church organizations.But much more than a study of women and the church or the feminization of piety, the book links new female lay associations beginning in the 1840s to the surprisingly early politicization of Catholic women in Mexico. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials spanning more than a century of Mexican political life, Chowning boldly argues that Catholic women played a vital role in the church’s resurrection as a political force in Mexico after liberal policies left it for dead.Shedding light on the importance of informal political power, this book places Catholic women at the forefront of Mexican conservatism and shows how they kept loyalty to the church strong when the church itself was weak.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Archives Consulted

Introduction

Part I. The Late Colony and the Aftermath of the Wars for Independence

Chapter 1. "Under No Circumstances Shall a Woman Be Elected": Gender Roles in Colonial Urban Cofradías

Chapter 2. "Our Fears That the Cofradías Will Disappear Are Not Unfounded": Gender, Lay Associations, and Priests in the Aftermath of the Wars for Independence, 1810-1860

Part II. The Era of the Reform

Chapter 3. "We Ladies Who Sign Below Wish to Establish a Congregation": Priests, Women, and New Lay Associations, 1840-1856

Chapter 4. "Throwing Themselves upon the Political Barricades": Catholic Women Enter National Politics in the Midcentury Petition Campaigns

Chapter 5. "The Intervention of the Faithful Was an Unavoidable Necessity": Lay Organizing and Women, 1856-1875

Chapter 6. "We'll See Who Wins: Them with Their Laws, or Us with Our Protests": The Ley Orgánica and the 1874-1875 Petition Campaign

Part III. The Porfiriato

Chapter 7. "Excellent Assistants of the Priest": Women and Lay Associations, 1876-1911

Chapter 8. "The Men Are Somewhat Preoccupied. Fortunately, the Mexican Woman Carries the Standard of Our Beliefs": Women and Catholic Politics in the Porfiriato

Epilogue. Catholic Women and Politics, 1910-1940

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691235424

0691235422

OCLC:

1330426915