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This critical bilingual anthology collects and contextualizes
thirty-four primary writings of understudied revolutionary mexicana
rhetors and social activists who published with presses within the
United States and Mexico during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries-a time of cross-border revolutionary upheaval
and change. These mexicana newspaperwomen leveraged diverse and
compelling rhetorical strategies and used the press to advance the
early feminist movement in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest; to define
their rights and roles in and confront the hypocrisies of their
societies' patriarchal systems; to engage in important debates
about education, women's rights, and language instruction; and to
protest injustices in society and construct possible solutions.
Because these presses were in both Mexico and the United States,
their writings offer opportunities to explore the concerns,
struggles, and triumphs of mexicanas in both U.S. and Mexican
cities and throughout the borderlands. Mestiza Rhetorics is the
first anthology dedicated to mexicana rhetors and provides
unmatched access to mexicana rhetorics. This collection puts
forward the work of mexicana newspaperwomen in Spanish and English,
provides evidence of their participation in political and
educational debates at the turn of the twentieth century, and
demonstrates how the Spanish-language press operated as a
rhetorical space for mexicanas.
Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican
women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism.
Journalists played a significant role in transforming Mexican
social and political life before and after the Revolution
(1910-1920), and women were a part of this movement as publishers,
writers, public speakers, and political activists. However, their
contributions to the broad historical changes associated with the
Revolution, as well as the pre- and post-revolutionary eras, are
often excluded or overlooked. Occupying our Space: The Mestiza
Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists, 1875-1942, fills a gap in
feminine rhetorical history by providing an in-depth look at
several important journalists who claimed rhetorical puestos, or
public speaking spaces. This book closely examines the writings of
Laureana Wright de Kleinhans (1842-1896), Juana Belen Gutierrez de
Mendoza (1875--1942), the political group Las mujeres de Zitacuaro
(1900), Hermila Galindo (1896-1954), and others. Grounded in the
overarching theoretical lens of mestiza rhetoric, Occupying Our
Space considers the ways in which Mexican women journalists
negotiated shifting feminine identities and the emerging national
politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With
full length Spanish primary documents along with their
translations, this scholarship reframes the conversation about the
rhetorical and intellectual role women played in the ever-changing
political and identity culture in Mexico.
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