For a Just and Better World Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
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Sonia Hernández is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Working Women into the Borderlands.For a Just and Better World Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
"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, <i>For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938</i>. . . . A richly woven and important labor study." --<i>Journal of American Ethnic History</i><br /> "<i>For a Just and Better World</i> 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." --<i>Southwestern Historical Quarterly</i><br /> <br /> "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." --<i>Hispanic American Historical Review</i><br /> <br />
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, <i>For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938</i>. . . . A richly woven and important labor study." --<i>Journal of American Ethnic History</i><br /> "<i>For a Just and Better World</i> 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." --<i>Southwestern Historical Quarterly</i><br /> <br /> "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." --<i>Hispanic American Historical Review</i><br /> <br />
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.