Gender and the Mexican Revolution
Subtitle: Yucatán women and the realities of patriarchy
By: Stephanie J. Smith.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807832844; 9780807859537
Subjects: Women revolutionaries -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History -- 20th century; Women political activists -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History -- 20th century; Political participation -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History -- 20th century; Women's rights -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History -- 20th century; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women and the radical revolutionary laboratory; title: Redefining women : the making of a revolution; title: Broken promises, broken hearts : the revolutionary judicial system; title: Honor and morality : the church, the state, and the control of Yucatecan families; title: If love enslaves; title: love be damned! : divorce and revolutionary state formation in Yucatán; title: Women in public and public women : prostitutes in revolutionary Yucatán.