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    • Author/Creator:Chowning, Margaret, author.
    • Title:Catholic women and Mexican politics, 1750-1940 / Margaret Chowning.
    • ISBN:9780691235424
      0691235422
      9780691177243
    • Publication:Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
    • Physical Description:1 online resource ( xiii, 362 pages) : illustrations, maps
    • Links:Online book
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    • Notes:Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
      Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2022).
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    • Variant and related titles:De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
    • Other formats:Print version: Chowning, Margaret. Catholic women and Mexican politics, 1750-1940 Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents:"Under no circumstances shall a woman be elected" : gender roles in colonial urban cofradías -- "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 -- "We ladies who sign below wish to establish a congregation" : priests, women, and new lay associations, 1840-1856 -- "Throwing themselves upon the political barricades" : Catholic women enter national politics in the midcentury petition campaigns -- "The intervention of the faithful was an unavoidable necessity" : lay organizing and women, 1856-1875 -- "We'll see who wins : them with their laws, or us with our protests" : the Ley Orgánica and the 1874-1875 petition campaign -- "Excellent assistants of the priest" : women and lay associations, 1876-1911 -- "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.
    • Subjects:Catholic Church--Mexico--History.
      Catholic women--Political activity--Mexico--History.
      Cofradías (Latin America)--Mexico.
      Church and state--Mexico--History.
      Women--Mexico--Social conditions.
      Mexico--Religious life and customs.
      Mexico--Politics and government--1810-
    • Also listed under:Walter de Gruyter & Co. Princeton University Press Complete 2023.