Description: María Teresa Fernández Aceves examines the lives, political careers, and participation in the public sphere of five women who aided in the creation of a modern culture in twentieth-century Mexico and, in some ways, Latin America as a whole.
Review Quotes: "Freethinkers and Labor Leaders adds significant depth to our knowledge about Mexican women in the twentieth century, provides new avenues of historical inquiry, and reminds us of the centrality of gendered ideologies in the making of modern Mexico."--Sonia Hernández, author of Working Women into the Borderlands