Throughout Mexico's history, women have been subjected to a dual
standard: exalted in myth, they remain subordinated in their social
role by their biology. But this dualism is not so much a battle
between the sexes as the product of a social system. The injustices
of this system have led Mexican women to conclude that they deserve
a better world, one worth struggling for.
Published originally in Spanish as Mujeres en Me xico: Una
historia olvidada, this work examines the role of Mexican women
from pre-Corte s to the 1980s, addressing the interplay between
myth and history and the gap between theory and practice. Pointing
to such varied prototypes as the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche,
and Sor Juana, Tun o n contrasts what these women represent with
more realistic but less-exalted counterparts such as Josefa Ortiz
de Domi nguez, La Gu era Rodri guez, and Juana Bele n Gutie rrez de
Mendoza. She also discusses the identity transformation by which
indigenous women come to see themselves as Mexicanas, and analyzes
such issues as women's economic dislocation in the labor force,
education, and self-image.
In challenging the illusion that historians have created of
women in Mexico's history, Tun o n hopes to recover feminism-- with
its strengths and weaknesses, its vision of the world that is both
intellectual and full of feeling. By examining the social world of
Mexico, she also hopes to determine those situations that cause
oppression, exploitation, and marginalization of women.
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