Pan American women : U.S. internationalists and revolutionary Mexico / / Megan Threlkeld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465377603321
• Autore: Threlkeld Megan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8122-9002-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Collana: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Disciplina: 863/.309
• Soggetti: Spanish fiction - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-237) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Best Kind of Internationalism -- Chapter 2. The Pan American Conference of Women -- Chapter 3. The Limits of Human Internationalism -- Chapter 4. The Peace with Mexico Campaign -- Chapter 5. Politicizing Internationalism -- Chapter 6. Not Such Good Neighbors -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: In the years following World War I, women activists in the United States and Europe saw themselves as leaders of a globalizing movement to promote women's rights and international peace. In hopes of advancing alliances, U.S. internationalists such as Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Doris Stevens reached across the border to their colleagues in Mexico, including educator Margarita Robles de Mendoza and feminist Hermila Galindo. They established new organizations, sponsored conferences, and rallied for peaceful relations between the two countries. But diplomatic tensions and the ongoing Mexican Revolution complicated their efforts. In Pan American Women, Megan Threlkeld chronicles the clash of political ideologies between U.S. and Mexican women during an era of war and revolution. Promoting a "human internationalism" (in the words of Addams), U.S. women overestimated the universal acceptance of their ideas. They considered nationalism an ethos to be overcome, while the revolutionary spirit of Mexico inspired female citizens there to embrace ideas and reforms that focused on ; their homeland. Although U.S. women gradually became less imperialistic in their outlook and more sophisticated in their organizational efforts, they could not overcome the deep divide between their own vision of international cooperation and Mexican women's nationalist aspirations. Pan American Women exposes the tensions of imperialism, revolutionary nationalism, and internationalism that challenged women's efforts to build an inter-American movement for peace and equality, in the process demonstrating the importance of viewing women's political history through a wider geographic lens.