Women's Participation In Mexican Political Life

Victoria E. Rodriguez is associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Somos Mujeres Muy Listas -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- The Emerging Role of Women in Mexican Political Life -- The Context: Women in Political Life Worldwide -- Women in Politics: Mexico in Global Perspective -- Mexican Women's Inclusion into Political Life: A Latin American Perspective -- Ten Theses on Women in the Political Life of Latin America -- Supermadre Revisited -- Women in the Mexican Political Arena -- Women and Power in Mexico: The Forgotten Heritage, 1880–1954 -- De la A a la Z: A Feminist Alliance Experience in Mexico -- Everyday Struggles: Women in Urban Popular Movements and Territorially Based Protests in Mexico -- The Role of Women's Nongovernmental Organizations in Mexican Public Life -- Gender and Grassroots Organizing: Lessons from Chiapas -- Women in Politics: Government and Political Parties -- Women and Men, Men and Women: Gender Patterns in Mexican Politics -- Feminist Policies in Contemporary Mexico: Strategies and Viability -- Women in the Local Arena and Municipal Power -- Women in the Border: The Panista Militants of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez -- Conclusion: Haciendo Política—The Mexican Case in Perspective