Teresa Villarreal
Teresa Villarreal González in Lampazos de Naranjo, (born 1883
Biography
Her father, Prospero Villarreal Zuazua, founded the Society of
She supported the liberal/radical Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) which opposed the dictatorship of President
By 1909, Andrea Villarreal, and his sister Teresa, found a fertile environment in San Antonio, Texas, to spread their ideas against the dictatorship of Diaz regime through the Mexican press in exile which served the Mexican community in the southern United States. There she published two newspapers, the feminist newspaper La Mujer Moderna (The Modern Woman, 1910) and the revolutionary El Obrero (The Worker).[2]
As the male leadership of the PLM was continuously under surveillance, the Villareal sisters and other women like them played key roles in the revolutionary cause. They performed tasks such as carrying messages, supplies and intelligence reports. One observer recalled how women like Andrea and Teresa Villareal took on responsibilities that men feared because of the heightened threats of the revolution: "Women in Texas were particularly active . . . had to continue the work men were now too intimidated to do." The sisters also made public speeches alongside
See also
- Mexican Americans
- Chicana feminism
- Postcolonial feminism
- List of Mexican-American writers
- List of women writers
References
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- ^ "Brooklyn College Web Site". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-06-24.