"Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico" is an empirically
rich history of women's political organizing during a critical
stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women
as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women
activists challenging prevailing beliefs about the masculine
foundations of citizenship. Piecing together material from national
and regional archives, popular journalism, and oral histories,
Olcott examines how women inhabited the conventionally manly role
of citizen by weaving together its quotidian and formal traditions,
drawing strategies from local political struggles and competing
gender ideologies.
Olcott demonstrates an extraordinary grasp of the complexity of
postrevolutionary Mexican politics, exploring the goals and
outcomes of women's organizing in Mexico City and the port city of
Acapulco as well as in three rural locations: the southeastern
state of Yucatan, the central state of Michoacan, and the northern
region of the Comarca Lagunera. Combining the strengths of national
and regional approaches, this comparative perspective sets in
relief the specificities of citizenship as a lived experience.
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