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By Jocelyn H. Olcott

Revolutionary girls in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically wealthy background of women’s political organizing in the course of a severe degree of regime consolidation. Rebutting just like Mexican girls as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott indicates ladies activists tough winning ideals concerning the masculine foundations of citizenship. Piecing jointly fabric from nationwide and local information, renowned journalism, and oral histories, Olcott examines how ladies inhabited the conventionally manly position of citizen by means of weaving jointly its quotidian and formal traditions, drawing suggestions from neighborhood political struggles and competing gender ideologies.

Olcott demonstrates a rare grab of the complexity of postrevolutionary Mexican politics, exploring the objectives and results of women’s organizing in Mexico urban and the port urban of Acapulco in addition to in 3 rural destinations: the southeastern kingdom of Yucatán, the relevant kingdom of Michoacán, and the northern quarter of the Comarca Lagunera. Combining the strengths of nationwide and nearby methods, this comparative point of view units in aid the specificities of citizenship as a lived experience.

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