Graciela Iturbide
She photographs Mexican society and culture. Between 1979 and 1988, she photographed a matriarchal society in Juchitán de Zaragoza, an indigenous town in southeast Oaxaca. She also photographed Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.
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Elisa Griensen
When she learned that the men of Parral were unwilling to fight Pershing’s troops in 1916, she assembled a group of women and children to meet Major Frank Tompkins and his soldiers at the city limits, forcing them to retreat
Dolores Jiménez y Muro
Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.
Apolinaria Lorenzana
One of very few women in California to receive a land grant in her own name in the early 1800s
Martha Vogel
Mexican short story writer and novelist
Dr Asunción Rangel
Mexican writer, editor, researcher and professor.
Alaíde Ventura Medina
Mexican anthropologist, writer and editor.
Flor Esther Aguilera Navarrete
Mexican academic, storyteller and poet.
Ana María Vázquez
Essayist and playwright
María Feliciana Arballo
María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.