|
| Publications [#43089] of Jocelyn Olcott
Books
- Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
(2005), Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php]
(last updated on 2010/07/02)
Abstract:
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary
Mexico investigates women's political
organizing during a critical stage of regime
consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican
women as conservative and anti-revolutionary,
this book 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,
it 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.
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary
Mexico explores 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 Yucatán, the central
state of Michoacán, 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.
|
