Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza
Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.
Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Encarnación Mares de Cárdenas achieved a very high status in one of the rebel forces opposed to Victoriano Huerta. As a result of her excellent work at the Battle of Lampazo, Nuevo León, she was promoted from corporal to lieutenant.
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.
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
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.
One of very few women in California to receive a land grant in her own name in the early 1800s
Mexican short story writer and novelist
Mexican writer, editor, researcher and professor.
Mexican anthropologist, writer and editor.