For a Just and Better World

Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938

Sonia Hernández author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:30th Nov '21

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Caritina Piña Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Piña 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, Piña 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.

"Sonia Hernández 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 Hernández 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 Hernández'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 Lázaro Cárdenas era." --Hispanic American Historical Review
 

ISBN: 9780252044045

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 513g

256 pages