Her Stories of the Mexican Revolution: Women, Migration, and Violence Across the US-Mexico Borderlands

Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
History
UC Santa Barbara

Her Stories of the Mexican Revolution: Women, Migration, and Violence Across the US-Mexico Borderlands uses intimacy as a lens to understand how gender operated during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and how women negotiated war, violence, and family separations at the US-Mexico border. The literature on women in the revolution mainly focuses on Mexican women as soldaderas or nurses. My book will contribute to this growing field by centering border women’s voices and telling their intimate stories that went beyond the battlefield.