For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 PDF
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S O N I A H E R N Á N D E Z For a JUST & B E T T E R WO R LD Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For a Just and Better World This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For a Just and Better World Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938 SONIA HERNÁNDEZ This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms © 2021 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Cataloging data available from the Library of Congress isbn 978-0-252-04404-5 (hardcover) isbn 978-0-252-08610-6 (paperback) isbn 978-0-252-05298-9 (ebook) This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For my one and only, Camila Chávez This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Terminology xvii Abbreviations Used in the Text xix Timeline xxi Introduction: Reenvisioning Mexican(a) Labor History across Borders 1 1 The Circulation of Radical Ideologies, Early Transnational Collaboration, and Crafting a Women’s Agenda 25 2 Gendering Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalist Organizations: “Compañeras en la Lucha” and “Women of Ill-Repute” 56 3 Feminismos Transfronterizos in Caritina Piña’s Labor Network 80 4 The Language of Motherhood in Radical Labor Activism 98 5 “Leave the Unions to the Men”: Anarchist Expressions and Engendering Political Repression in the Midst of State-Sanctioned Socialism 111 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:16 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 6 A Last Stand for Anarcho-Feminists in the Post-1920 Period 131 7 Finding Closure: Legacies of Anarcho-Feminism in the Mexican Borderlands 145 Notes 155 Bibliography 191 Index 211 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:16 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Illustrations Figures 1. Map of the Gulf of Mexico and Greater Mexican Borderlands 3 2. Map of Tampico and Villa Cecilia 27 3. Warehouse of the Huasteca Petroleum Company, Villa Cecilia 30 4. Oil tank cars on the loading docks, Tampico, ca. 1910–1920 30 5. Railroad yards from the bluff, Tampico, ca. 1880–1900 31 6. Nicanor Piña Hernández, Caritina Piña’s father, ca. 1910 38 7. Zenaido Piña, Caritina Piña’s half-brother, ca. 1911 39 8. Magonista Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara with female soldiers, 1911 40 9. Librado Rivera and Enrique Flores Magón, ca. 1910–1915 44 10. Venustiano Carranza, Carrera Torres, and other militares, ca. 1910–1920 65 11. Caritina M. Piña, ca. 1920 81 12. Tampico street scene 84 13. Anarchist demonstration against the police in Tampico, 1925 103 14. Women workers in a Mexican public laundry 130 15. Market scene from station, Tampico 134 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:46:26 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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