For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938

Sonia Hernandez

For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Country
United States
Published
30 November 2021
Pages
256
ISBN
9780252086106

For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938

Sonia Hernandez

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

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