Women Role In The Mexican Revolution

Women have always played a key role in the history of Latin America. However, the stories that are passed on to tell their tales often minimize their their experiences and choose to instead depict them as simply supporting roles for them men at the forefront of history. One of the best examples of this is the trivialization of the role women played in the Mexican Revolution. This ten-year war between the angry agrarians and the government affected the lives of every citizen and changed the identity of the Mexican nation permanently. During the war, women became extremely involved by not only caring for the house and land when their men went away. Many ended up following the action, providing for the soldiers by cooking their meals, mending

These characters challenge the stereotypes we typically see and give a new look into the importance of women to the Mexican Revolution. By looking at two example from literature, La Pintada from Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela and Gertrudis from Como Agua para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, one can see examples of women who are not defined by the presence of men in their lives, along with not fitting into the stereotypes one tends to see when it comes to

However, one of the most famous books for the Mexican Revolution, Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajos, depicts a woman who defies the gender roles of her time, engages in raids and physical altercations, and does not succumb to the desires of the men in her life, nor allows herself to be defined by them. La Pintada is an unapologetic example of a soldadera that is different from the depictions we traditional see. She fought for her own personal reasons, never changed her direction or motivation for a man, and remains “untamed” throughout the entirety of the