Ladina social activism in Guatemala City, 1871-1954 /Patricia Harms.
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xii, 409 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Because Everyone Has Forgotten -- Chapter 1. Writing Women into History, 1871-1930 -- Chapter 2. Dictating Feminisms: Women and Gender in Ubico's Guatemala, 1930-1944 -- Chapter 3. A Small Payment for a Large Debt: Maternal Feminism, Revolutionary Mothers, and the Social Revolution, 1944-1950 -- Chapter 4. We Are Already Citizens: Suffrage, Gender, the Catholic Church, and Revolutionary Politics, 1944-1950 Chapter 5. Even a Grain of Sand: Urban Ladinas, the Cold War, and the First Inter-American Congress of Women, Guatemala City, 1947 -- Chapter 6. Living in the World We Imagined: The Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca, Socialist Feminism, and the Cold War, 1950-1954 -- Chapter 7. God Doesn't Like the Revolution: The Archbishop, the Market Women, and the Gender of Economy, 1944-1954 -- Epilogue: The Return to Silence -- Appendix A: Naming the Nameless -- Appendix B: Guatemala Female Jobs Profile, 1920-1950 -- Appendix C: School Attendance, 1950 -- Appendix D: Number of Teachers, 1950 -- Notes
In this groundbreaking new study on ladinas in Guatemala City, Patricia Harms contests the virtual erasure of women from the country's national memory and its historical consciousness.
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Feminism--Guatemala--19th century. Feminism--Guatemala--20th century. Social movements--Guatemala--19th century. Social movements--Guatemala--20th century. Ladino (Latin American people)--History.