Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940

Media type: E-Book

Title: Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Archives Consulted
Introduction
Part I. The Late Colony and the Aftermath of the Wars for Independence
1. "Under No Circumstances Shall a Woman Be Elected": Gender Roles in Colonial Urban Cofradías
2. "Our Fears That the Cofradías Will Disappear Are Not Unfounded": Gender, Lay Associations, and Priests in the Aftermath of the Wars for Independence, 1810-1860
Part II. The Era of the Reform
3. "We Ladies Who Sign Below Wish to Establish a Congregation": Priests, Women, and New Lay Associations, 1840-1856
4. "Throwing Themselves upon the Political Barricades": Catholic Women Enter National Politics in the Midcentury Petition Campaigns
5. "The Intervention of the Faithful Was an Unavoidable Necessity": Lay Organizing and Women, 1856-1875
6. "We'll See Who Wins: Them with Their Laws, or Us with Our Protests": The Ley Orgánica and the 1874-1875 Petition Campaign
Part III. The Porfiriato
7. "Excellent Assistants of the Priest": Women and Lay Associations, 1876-1911
8. "The Men Are Somewhat Preoccupied. Fortunately, the Mexican Woman Carries the Standard of Our Beliefs": Women and Catholic Politics in the Porfiriato
Epilogue. Catholic Women and Politics, 1910-1940
Appendix. Foundations of the Vela Perpetua 1840-1860
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Contributor: Chowning, Margaret [VerfasserIn]

imprint: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (376 p.); 7 b/w illus. 5 tables. 2 maps

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780691235424

ISBN: 9780691235424

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Keywords: Catholic women Political activity Mexico History ; Church and state Mexico History ; Cofradías (Latin America) Mexico ; Women Mexico Social conditions ; HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico ; Alexis de Tocqueville ; American Anti-Slavery Society ; American Civil War ; American Council of Learned Societies ; American Political Thought ; American middle class ; Anti-Slavery Society ; Anti-communism ; Anti-intellectualism in American Life ; Antiquities ; Antisemitism (authors) ; Archbishop of Canterbury ; Barack Obama ; Book of Deuteronomy ; Canon law (Catholic Church) ; Castile (historical region) ; Catholic Church ; Catholic University of America Press ; Centre-left politics ; [...]

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Footnote: In English

Description: How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political lifeWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in the untold story of how the Mexican Catholic church in the nineteenth century excluded, then accepted, and then came to depend on women as leaders in church organizations.But much more than a study of women and the church or the feminization of piety, the book links new female lay associations beginning in the 1840s to the surprisingly early politicization of Catholic women in Mexico. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials spanning more than a century of Mexican political life, Chowning boldly argues that Catholic women played a vital role in the church's resurrection as a political force in Mexico after liberal policies left it for dead.Shedding light on the importance of informal political power, this book places Catholic women at the forefront of Mexican conservatism and shows how they kept loyalty to the church strong when the church itself was weak

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