Sonia Hernández
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252044045
- eISBN:
- 9780252052989
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252044045.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
Building upon historic transnational connections between the cosmopolitan port of Tampico, the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the Mexican north, and ports of entry across the Atlantic, a network of ...
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Building upon historic transnational connections between the cosmopolitan port of Tampico, the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the Mexican north, and ports of entry across the Atlantic, a network of labor activists including women such as Caritina Piña emerged in the early twentieth century to address labor inequities. This book retraces the emergence of this network circulating on the eve of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The early revolutionary period ushered in a wave of anarcho-syndicalist groups privileging organizing via labor unions and other collectives. Organizations such as the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) were among the most progressive of collectives that incorporated women’s issues in their agenda. Its members encouraged women’s participation as compañeras, key to creating a real revolution. Yet, despite such progressive stance, gendered ideas about femininity and masculinity shaped members’ perspectives just as much as they shaped mainstream media outlets casting radical female activists as “women of ill-repute.” Their own understanding of gender and ideas about motherhood shaped women activists too. While anarcho-syndicalism declined as the revolutionary state grew stronger in its co-opting of organized labor, the legacy of women’s activism remained a distinctive feature of the greater Mexican borderlands. Women left an indelible mark on the Tamaulipas-Texas borderlands’ labor history. Such historic and gendered border solidarities, while imperfect, helped to build a foundation for postrevolutionary labor alliances.Less
Building upon historic transnational connections between the cosmopolitan port of Tampico, the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the Mexican north, and ports of entry across the Atlantic, a network of labor activists including women such as Caritina Piña emerged in the early twentieth century to address labor inequities. This book retraces the emergence of this network circulating on the eve of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The early revolutionary period ushered in a wave of anarcho-syndicalist groups privileging organizing via labor unions and other collectives. Organizations such as the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) were among the most progressive of collectives that incorporated women’s issues in their agenda. Its members encouraged women’s participation as compañeras, key to creating a real revolution. Yet, despite such progressive stance, gendered ideas about femininity and masculinity shaped members’ perspectives just as much as they shaped mainstream media outlets casting radical female activists as “women of ill-repute.” Their own understanding of gender and ideas about motherhood shaped women activists too. While anarcho-syndicalism declined as the revolutionary state grew stronger in its co-opting of organized labor, the legacy of women’s activism remained a distinctive feature of the greater Mexican borderlands. Women left an indelible mark on the Tamaulipas-Texas borderlands’ labor history. Such historic and gendered border solidarities, while imperfect, helped to build a foundation for postrevolutionary labor alliances.
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780520272385
- eISBN:
- 9780520951341
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520272385.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Family History
Over the span of history, notions of both biological and fictive kinship have had varying degrees of influence. In this chapter on the history of the family as it evolved in both Europe and the ...
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Over the span of history, notions of both biological and fictive kinship have had varying degrees of influence. In this chapter on the history of the family as it evolved in both Europe and the Spanish and Mexican borderlands in the US Southwest, Gutiérrez demonstrates how intense emotional relationships between individuals not related by blood often constituted bonds of affection and obligation that were family-like in the deepest sense. Beginning with a discussion of the family during the Roman era, the essay proceeds to an analysis of evolving state-Catholic definitions and tensions over the nature and meaning of family membership.Less
Over the span of history, notions of both biological and fictive kinship have had varying degrees of influence. In this chapter on the history of the family as it evolved in both Europe and the Spanish and Mexican borderlands in the US Southwest, Gutiérrez demonstrates how intense emotional relationships between individuals not related by blood often constituted bonds of affection and obligation that were family-like in the deepest sense. Beginning with a discussion of the family during the Roman era, the essay proceeds to an analysis of evolving state-Catholic definitions and tensions over the nature and meaning of family membership.
