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catholic women's activism in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s has attracted the interest of a growing number of historians since the 1990s. Almost without exception, these scholars have assumed that the highly vis i ble petition drives, letter-writing campaigns, marches, demonstrations, defiant pro cessions, coordinated symbolic protests, and even military actions (during the Cristero rebellion in the late 1920s) were Catholic women's first entries into politics.1 As they see it, the extreme anticlericalism and anti-Catholicism of the revolutionary state drove women to act po liti cally as they had never done before.2They also seem to suggest that Catholic women's po liti cal actions effectively ended in the 1940s (though this period is scarcely studied at an archival level, especially with attention to gender). Women had seemingly been won over by conciliatory gestures from the post-1940 state, one that was prepared to find common ground with the church around anticommunism, and preferred to court women with the carrots of subsidized consumption, welfarism, modest protections for women's rights within marriage, and eventually suffrage, rather than continue to antagonize them by, for ex

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN