For a Just and Better World
Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
Published on 30. November 2021
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-252-04404-5 (ISBN)
Description
Caritina Pina Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernandez tells the story of how Pina and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor broker, Pina never left her native Tamaulipas. Yet she excelled in connecting groups in the United States and Mexico. Her story explains the conditions that led to anarcho-syndicalism's rise as a tool to achieve labor and gender equity. It also reveals how women's ideas and expressions of feminist beliefs informed their experiences as leaders in and members of the labor movement. A vivid look at a radical activist and her times, For a Just and Better World illuminates the lives and work of Mexican women battling for labor rights and gender equality in the early twentieth century.
Reviews / Votes
"Sonia Hernandez paints a vivid and heroic mural of Mexican labor activists in and around industrial Tampico during the early twentieth century in her latest book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. . . . A richly woven and important labor study." --Journal of American Ethnic History"For a Just and Better World is a well-written and detail-rich narrative with a robust theoretical framework and creative analysis of a complex world. . . Sonia Hernandez provides a much-needed map for readers to find both the women and the engendered anarchism integral in this story of a collective quest for a just and better world." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"Sonia Hernandez's new book is an engaging story that unites a traditional focus on anarchist labor initiatives with a study of the roles that women anarchists played in the gendered and transnational politics stretching from the Gulf of Mexico and northward toward the Mexican-US border from before the Mexican Revolution to the end of the Lazaro Cardenas era." --Hispanic American Historical Review
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
14 black & white photographs, 5 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-04404-5 (9780252044045)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sonia Hernandez is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Working Women into the Borderlands.
Content
CoverTItleCopyrightContentsList of IlustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyAbbreviations Used in the TextTimelineIntroduction: Reenvisioning Mexican(a) Labor History across Borders1. The Circulation of Radical Ideologies, Early Transnational Collaboration, and Crafting a Women's Agenda2. Gendering Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalist Organizations: "Companeras en la Lucha" and "Women of3. Feminismos Transfronterizos in Caritina Pina's Labor Network4. The Language of Motherhood in Radical Labor Activism5. "Leave the Unions to the Men": Anarchist Expressions and (En)Gendering Political Repression in the Midst of State-Sanctioned Socialism6. A Last Stand for Anarcho-Feminists in the Post-1920 Period7. Finding Closure: Legacies of Anarcho-Feminism in the Mexican BorderlandsNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover