Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in
Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico , which celebrates the women of early Texas and Mexico who refused to walk a traditional path.
The anthology embraces an expansive definition of the word revolutionary by looking at female role models from decades ago and subversives who continue to stand up for their visions and ideals. Eighteen portraits introduce readers to these rebels by providing glimpses into their lives and places in history. At the heart of the portraits are the women of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)—women like the soldaderas who shadowed the Mexican armies, tasked with caring for and treating the wounded troops. Filling in the gaps are iconic godmothers like the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Malinche whose stories are seamlessly woven into the collective history of Texas and Mexico. Portraits of artists Frida Kahlo and Nahui Olin and activists Emma Tenayuca and Genoveva Morales take readers from postrevolutionary Mexico into the present.
Portraits include a biography, an original pen-and-ink illustration, and a historical or literary piece by a contemporary writer who was inspired by their subject’s legacy. Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Elena Poniatowska, Carmen Tafolla, and other contributors bring their experience to bear in their pieces, and historian Jennifer Speed’s introduction contextualizes each woman in her cultural-historical moment. A foreword by civil rights activist Dolores Huerta and an afterword by scholar Norma Elia Cantú bookend this powerful celebration of women who revolutionized their worlds.
Spis treści
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Reflections on Revolutionary Women — Dolores Huerta
Preface – Kathy Sosa
Introduction: Setting the Scene of Revolutionary Women in Texas and Mexico
– Jennifer Speed
Section I: The Era of the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Las Soldaderas – Elena Poniatowska
Juana Belèn Gutièrrez de Mendoza – Cristina D. Ramírez
Valentinas, no! Valientas, si! Cristina Sosa and Leonila Ortiz Sosa [AM1] – Lionel Sosa
The Perservationists: Adina De Zavala, Rena Maverick Green, Emily Edwards – Lewis F. Fisher
Concepcion Acevedo de la Llata – Jennifer Speed
Section II: Las Antepasadas : Women Revolutionaries prior to the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz – Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Virgin of Guadalupe – Virgilio P. Elizondo
Jane Mc Manus Cazneau – Linda Hudson
Teresa Urrea – Sandra Cisneros
Malinalli La Malinche – Laura Esquivel
Section III: The Legacy : Women Revolutionaries of the Post-Revolution Era
Alice Dickerson Montemayor – Cynthia Orozoco
Emma Tenayuca – Carmen Tafolla
Frida Kahlo – Amalia Mesa-Bains
Genoveva Morales –Elaine Ayala
Nahui Olin – Teresa Van Hoy
Gloria Anzaldúa – Ellen Riojas Clark
Chavela Vargas – Sandra Cisneros
Women of Guerrero – Marta Lamas
Epilogue: title TK – Norma Cantú
O autorze
Lionel Sosa is an independent marketing consultant and a nationally known portrait artist. He has served on the teams of eight national presidential campaigns, on the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, and on the boards of Sesame Workshop, PBS, and the Briscoe Western Art Museum, and other organizations. He is the author or coauthor of five books, including El Vaquero Real: The Original American Cowboy. Sosa and his wife, Kathy Sosa, recently produced the documentary Children of the Revolución: How the Mexican Revolution Changed America’s Destiny, a twenty-part series chronicling the history of the Texas/Mexico borderland.
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