This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing goals were actively involved, first in military roles during the violent early phase of civil war, and later in the state-building process. Drawing on a variety of perspectives, the volume illuminates the ways women variously accepted, contested, used, and manipulated the revolutionary project in Mexico. All too often, attention has been limited to elite, pro-revolutionary women's formal political activities, particularly their pursuit of suffrage. This timely volume broadens traditional perspectives, drawing on new scholarship that considers grassroots participation in institution building and the contested nature of the revolutionary process. Recovering narratives that have been virtually written out of the historical record, this book brings us a rich and complex array of women's experiences in the revolutionary and post-revolutionary era in Mexico.
Nottie Thompson has Potential. That's what her neighbor, Mrs. Fairlie, finds out when a spell meant for Nottie's cat misfires. But that's all the spell says, and Mrs. Fairlie can't tell Nottie anything else. Armed with more questions than answers, Nottie is sent to meet another caster in town who might be able to help. Instead, she meets Dev, a boy from the royal city who definitely isn't telling her everything. Together with her cat and her new friend, Nottie is thrown into an adventure in which she alone might change the course of history - or not. It is only Potential, after all.
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