Women's historical agency

Abstract

The editors and authors of Women in the Mexican Twentieth Century start from the theoretical and methodological debates of women's history and the history of gender of the American and Mexican feminist strands. They put women at the center of the analysis in relation to other men, the State, the Catholic Church, political parties, political organizations, cooking, writing, the family, and educational institutions. There is a clear influence of the postulates of the feminist historian Joan Scott, in how gender constructs politics and how politics constructs gender in many of the