"Worthy wives and mothers:" State-sponsored women's organizing in postrevolutionary Mexico

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 106-131

  Olcott, Jocelyn ^a  

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EID: 33751172237     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2002.0011     Document Type: Article

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2. Alfonso Porfirio Hernández, ¿La explotaciön colectiva en la Comarca Lagunera es unfracaso? (Mexico: B. Costa-Amic Editores, 1975);
3. and Barry Carr, Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992).
4. For a helpful analysis of state building during periods of "high modernism," see James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998).
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8. See also Joe Foweraker and Ann L. Craig, eds., Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1990);
9. and Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, and Arturo Escobar, Cultures of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998).
10. On Mexican women, see Alejandra Massolo, ed., Mujeres y ciudades: participación social, vivienda y vida cotidiana (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1992),
11. and Alejandra Massolo, Los medios y los modos: participación politica y acción colectiva de las mujeres (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1994).
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16. El Machete, 20 December 1930, 3.
17. On Catholic women's organizing, see Kristina Boylan, "Mexican Catholic Women's Activism, 1929-1940" (Ph.D. diss., St. Cross College, Oxford University, 2001);
18. On fascists, see John Sherman, The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997).
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29. Las Ligas Femeniles en la Laguna.
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31. Las Ligas Femeniles en la Laguna, 61-65.
32. Clarence Senior, Democracy Comes to a Cotton Kingdom: The Story of Mexico's La Laguna (Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Pedagógicos e Hispanoamericanos, 1940), 65.
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35. Arnold Bauer, "Millers and Grinders: Technology and Household Economy in Meso-America," Agricultural History, 61, no. 1 (1990): 1-17;
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