Gender and Citizenship in Cardenista México. Review of Jocelyn Olcott's <em>Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico</em> (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006)

Authors

  • Patience Schell University of Manchester

Keywords:

Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American History, Latin American Politics, Mexican Revolution

Abstract

Jocelyn Olcott’s insightful monograph, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, expands our understanding of women’s activism and popular mobilization during the Lázaro Cárdenas years. In this period, the meanings of Mexican femininity and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship became contested discourses through which some Mexican women sought to construct a postrevolutionary society that addressed their needs.

Author Biography

Patience Schell, University of Manchester

Patience A. Schell es historiadora y profesora de estudios latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Manchester. Obtuvo su doctorado en la Universidad de Oxford en 1998. Ha publicado numerosos trabajos sobre la historia de México y Chile, incluyendo Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City (University of Arizona Press, 2003) y The Women's Revolution: Mexico, 1900-1953, co-editado con Stephanie Mitchell (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Fue codirectora del proyecto “Relics  and  Selves: Iconographies of the National in Argentina, Brazil and Chile" (url). Actualmente trabaja en un nuevo proyecto sobre las redes de amistad entre científicos en Chileen el siglo diecinueve.

Published

2007-02-01

How to Cite

Schell, P. (2007). Gender and Citizenship in Cardenista México. Review of Jocelyn Olcott’s <em>Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico</em> (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 4(3), 234–238. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/326

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