Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Archives Consulted xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Late Colony and the Aftermath of the Wars for Independence
7. 1. “Under No Circumstances Shall a Woman Be Elected”: Gender Roles in Colonial Urban Cofradías 17
8. 2. “Our Fears That the Cofradías Will Disappear Are Not Unfounded”: Gender, Lay Associations, and Priests in the Aftermath of the Wars for Independence, 1810–1860 45
9. Part II. The Era of the Reform
10. 3. “We Ladies Who Sign Below Wish to Establish a Congregation”: Priests, Women, and New Lay Associations, 1840–1856 71
11. 4. “Throwing Themselves upon the Political Barricades”: Catholic Women Enter National Politics in the Midcentury Petition Campaigns 97
12. 5. “The Intervention of the Faithful Was an Unavoidable Necessity”: Lay Organizing and Women, 1856–1875 123
13. 6. “We’ll See Who Wins: Them with Their Laws, or Us with Our Protests”: The Ley Orgánica and the 1874–1875 Petition Campaign 147
14. Part III. The Porfiriato
15. 7. “Excellent Assistants of the Priest”: Women and Lay Associations, 1876–1911 173
16. 8. “The Men Are Somewhat Preoccupied. Fortunately, the Mexican Woman Carries the Standard of Our Beliefs”: Women and Catholic Politics in the Porfiriato 206
17. Epilogue. Catholic Women and Politics, 1910–1940 232
18. Appendix. Foundations of the Vela Perpetua 1840–1860 253
19. Notes 257
20. Bibliography 325
21. Index 353