Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching and Rafael A. Lara-Martínez, Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), pp. xviii+411, $29.95, pb.
by almost all of the authors distinguishes this collection as a solid empirical contribution to the study of the diversity of women’s experiences in post revolutionary Mexico. The chapters reveal that women most often met seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their efforts to achieve social justice or citizenship. Yet this collection also shows that Mexico’s patriarchal post revolutionary state was in part constituted by and through the very women it sought to subjugate. Therefore, though in isolation the gains that women made appeared insignificant, together they initiated a sea change in the gendered attitudes and practices that composed political life in twentieth century Mexico.