Antifeminism and catholic feminism in Mexico. The Mexican Catholic Women´s Union and the Acción Femenina magazine, 1933-1958

This article aims to analyze some discussions that took place around feminism within the Mexican Catholic Church in the years before the Second Vatican Council, specifically those related to women's suffrage, wage labor and divorce. To do this the magazine Acción Femenina, founded in 1933 as th...

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Autor: Espinoza Meléndez, Pedro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Interdisciplinaria de estudios de género de El Colegio de México
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx:article/381
Acceso en línea:https://estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx/index.php/eg/article/view/381
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Catholic Church
Mexican Catholic Action
feminism
antifeminism
iglesia católica
Acción Católica Mexicana
feminismo
antifeminismo
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Sumario:This article aims to analyze some discussions that took place around feminism within the Mexican Catholic Church in the years before the Second Vatican Council, specifically those related to women's suffrage, wage labor and divorce. To do this the magazine Acción Femenina, founded in 1933 as the official communication body of the Mexican Catholic Women's Union (UFCM), one of the female branches of the Mexican Catholic Action (ACM) was used. The hypothesis is that there was a tension with regard to gender discourses, since in their publications anti-feminist positions coexisted with feminist claims. This lead us to complexify the history of Catholic feminism in Mexico, which could have its origins in the before the Second Vatican Council.