Freethinkers and Labor Leaders – Women, Social Change, and Politics in Modern M…

Freethinkers and Labor LeadersWomen, Social Change, and Politics in Modern Mexico\nAuthor(s): Mara Teresa Fernndez Aceves, Tanya Huntington\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496231277, 978-1496231277\nSynopsis\nThe interpretation of the revisionist historiography of the Mexican Revolution [tel] has focused primarily on revolutionary leaders who were men, pushing the heroines of the war to the sidelines. If women happened to be mentioned, they appeared only as symbols, not as social agents. However, the role of the Adelitas, the Cristeras, the Hijas del Anhuac, and the women of the crata Group were essential to the revolution. In Freethinkers and Labor Leaders Mara Teresa Fernndez Aceves tells the stories of five militant feminist women who aided in the creation of a modern culture in revolutionary and postrevolutionary Mexico and, in some ways, Latin America as a whole: Beln de Srraga Hernnde.