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The status of women in Mexico has changed significantly over time. Until the twentieth century,

Virgin Mary as a model. Marianismo
has been an ideal, with women's role as being within the family under the authority of men. In the twentieth century, Mexican women made great strides towards a more equal legal and social status. In 1953 women in Mexico were granted the right to vote in national elections.

Urban women in Mexico worked in factories, the earliest being the tobacco factories set up in major Mexican cities as part of the lucrative tobacco monopoly. Women ran a variety of enterprises in the colonial era, with the widows of elite businessmen continuing to run the family business. In the prehispanic and colonial periods, non-elite women were small-scale sellers in markets. In the late nineteenth century, as Mexico allowed foreign investment in industrial enterprises, women found increased opportunities to work outside the home. Women can now be seen working in factories, working in portable food carts, and owning their own business. “In 1910, women made up 14% of the workforce, by 2008 they were 38%”.[1]

Mexican women face discrimination and at times harassment from the men exercising machismo against them. Although women in Mexico are making great advances, they are faced with the traditional expectation of being the head of the household. Researcher Margarita Valdés noted that while there are few inequities imposed by law or policy in Mexico, gender inequalities perpetuated by social structures and Mexican cultural expectations limit the capabilities of Mexican women.[2]

As of 2014, Mexico has the 16th highest female homicide rate in the world.[3]

History

Pre-Columbian societies

Maya

See also:
Women in Maya Society

The Mayan civilization was initially established during the Pre-Classic period (c. 2000 BC to 250 AD). According to the consensus chronology of Mesoamerica, many Mayan cities reached their highest state of development during the Classical period (c. 250 to 900 AD), and continued throughout the post-Classical period until the arrival of the Spanish in 1519 AD. Women within Mayan society were limited in regards to status, marriage, and inheritance. In all pre-Columbian societies, marriage was the ideal state for women beyond the age of puberty. Noble women were often married to the rulers of neighboring kingdoms, thus creating dynastic alliances[4]

Although the majority of these women had few political responsibilities, these women were vital to the political fabric of the state.[dubious – discuss][4] Elite women enjoyed a high status within their society and were sometimes rulers of city states.[4] Among a handful of female rulers were Lady Ahpo-Katum of Piedras Negras and Lady Apho-He of Palenque.[4] Although women had little political influence, Mayan glyph data include many scenes with a female participating in various public activities and genealogies trace male rulers' right to power through female members of their family.[4]

Women could not own or inherit land. They owned what could be termed feminine goods which included household objects, domestic animals, beehives, and their own clothing.[4] Women could bequeath their property, but it was gender specific and was usually not of much value.[4]

Aztec

See also: Women in Aztec civilization
Usual female clothing of the Nahua people of the Mexica and therefore of the Nahua peoples in general in pre-Hispanic times.

The term 'Aztec' refers to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the

Náhuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 1300 A.D. to 1500 A.D. Women within Aztec society were groomed from birth to be wives and mothers and to produce tribute goods that each household owed. Each girl was given small spindles and shuttles to symbolize her future role in household production.[4] Her umbilical cord was buried near the fireplace of her house in the hope that she would be a good keeper of the home.[4]

Growing up, unmarried girls were expected to be virgins and were closely chaperoned to ensure their virginity stayed intact until their marriage.[4] Girls were married soon after reaching puberty[4] as marriage was the ideal state for women. It is estimated that as many as ninety-five percent of indigenous women were married.[4] Couples were expected to stay together, however Aztec society did recognize divorce, with each partner retaining their own property brought into the marriage after divorce.[4]

Similar to Mayan society, Aztec noblewomen had little choice in their marriage as it was a matter of state policy to create alliances.[4] In regards to inheritance and property rights, Aztec women were severely limited. Although women were allowed to inherit property, their rights to it were more to usage rights.[5] Property given to children was much freeing where it could be bequeathed or sold.[5]

Spanish conquest

Malinche meet Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan
, November 8, 1519.

When the Spanish conquistadores arrived in Mexico, they needed help to conquer the land. Although often overlooked in the history of the conquest, individual women facilitated the defeat of the powerful Aztec Empire. Women possessed knowledge of the land and the local language. One of the most notable women who assisted Hernán Cortés during the conquest period of Mexico was

Mayan language and later learned Spanish.[6]

Born a Nahua, or an Aztec, Marina was sold into slavery by her own people to the Mayans and eventually was given to Cortés as a payment of tribute. To Cortés, Doña Marina was a valuable asset in overthrowing the Aztec empire based in

Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City) and was always seen at his side, even during battles with the Aztecs and Mayans.[6]

Malinche had become the translator and the mistress of Hernán Cortés. No matter how useful Doña Marina was to Cortés, he was “reluctant to give Doña Marina credit, referring to her as ‘my interpreter, who is an Indian woman’”. During the conquest women were viewed as objects that could be exploited by men to gain a higher standing in society. Malinche was considered a spoil of conquest to the males surrounding her and originally intended to sexually please the soldiers.[7]

Just like Malinche, many women were offered to the conquistadors as an offering because both cultures viewed females as objects to be presented to others.[8] Since few women traveled to the New World, native females were considered a treasure that needed to be Christianized. It is believed that there were ulterior motives in the Christianization of indigenous individuals, especially women. Conquistadores were quick to convert the women and distribute them amongst themselves.[9]

Spanish era

The casta racial system in New Spain. Luis de Mena, Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1750.

The division of social classes was essential and such divisions were expressed through the attire worn by individuals. Elite and upper-class women could afford expensive textiles imported from Spain. Due to the strong system of racial hierarchy, known as the sistema de

Mestizos (mixed Español and Indian); Mulatos (mixed Negro and Español); Negros (Africans); and offspring of further mixed-race pairings.[10]
Regardless of the social status of Indian women, she would dress in compliance with Indian customs. Wealthy females were able to purchase superior materials for clothing.

The importance placed upon social class caused purity of blood to become a factor in regards to marriage. Women were affected by these policies as it was required for both men and women to submit documents proving their blood purity. European men sought elite Mexican women to marry and have children with, in order to retain or gain a higher status in society. Problems that occurred with providing documentation in blood purity are that males were the ones who were called as a witness. Women rarely were able to defend their purity and had to rely on men from the community.[11]

Regardless of social class, women in eighteenth century Mexico City usually married for the first time between the ages of 17 and 27, with a median age of 20.5 years. Women were inclined to marry individuals belonging to the same social group as their fathers.[12]

Education for women was surrounded by religion. Individuals believed that girls should be educated enough to read the bible and religious devotionals, but should not be taught to write. When girls were provided with an education, they would live in convents and be instructed by nuns, with education being significantly limited. Of all the women who sought entry into Mexico City's convent of Corpus Christi, only 10 percent of elite Indian women had a formal education.[13]

Mexican War of Independence and early republic 1810-1850

Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, known as the Corregidora

The

Grito de Dolores on September 16 of 1810 and officially ended on September 27 of 1821 when Spanish rule collapse and the Army of the Three Guarantees marched into Mexico City. Women participated in the Mexican War of Independence, most famously Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, known in Mexican history as La Corregidora. Her remains were moved to the Monument to Independence in Mexico City; there are statues of her in her honor, and her face has appeared on Mexican currency. Other distinguished women of the era are Gertrudis Bocanegra, María Luisa Martínez de García Rojas, Manuela Medina, Rita Pérez de Moreno, Maria Fermina Rivera, María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba, better known as La Güera Rodríguez (Rodríguez the Fair);[14] and Leona Vicario
.

Following independence, some women in Zacatecas raised the question of citizenship for women. They petitioned for it, saying "women also wish to have the title of citizen .. to see ourselves in the census as 'La ciudadana' (woman citizen)."[15] Independence affected women in both positive and negatives ways. Prior to the independence, women were only allowed to act as their children's guardians until the age of seven in cases of separation of widowhood. Post-independence laws allowed women to serve as guardians until the age of majority.[16] Women continued to occupy domestic service positions although economic instability led to many households ending employment of domestic servants.[16]

19th c. Liberal Reform and Porfiriato 1850-1910

Laureana Wright de Kleinhans, considered the most brilliant and radical defender of women's emancipation.

As with Liberalism elsewhere, Liberalism in Mexico emphasized secular education as a path forward toward equality before the law. In the colonial era, there were limited opportunities for Mexican girls and women, but with the establishment of secular schools in the middle of the nineteenth century, girls had greater access to education, while women entered the teaching profession. Quite a number of them became advocates for women's rights, becoming active in politics, founding journals and newspapers, and attending international conferences for women's rights. Women teachers were part of the new middle class in Mexico, which also included women office workers in the private sector and government. Women also became involved in general improvement in society, including better hygiene and nutrition. Toward the end of the Porfiriato, the period when General Porfirio Díaz ruled Mexico (1876-1910), women began pressing for legal equality and the right to vote. The largest sector of Mexico's population was rural and indigenous or mixed-race, so that the movement for women's equality was carried forward by a very small sector of educated, urban women.[17]

Mexican Revolution and its Consolidation, 1910-1940

See also: Soldaderas, Feminism in Mexico, and Women's suffrage in Mexico
Depiction of «adelitas», or Soldaderas, of the Mexican Revolution.

The

Porfirio Diaz. This military phase is generally considered to have lasted through 1920. Most often it is the case that women involved in war are overlooked. Although the revolution is attributed to men, it is important to note the dedication and participation women contributed, just as much as their male counterparts. Poor mestiza and indigenous women had a strong presence in the revolutionary conflict becoming camp followers often referred to in Mexico as soldaderas.[16] Nellie Campobello
was one of the few women to write a first-person account of the Mexican Revolution, Cartucho.

Most often, these women followed the army when a male relative joined and provided essential services such as food preparation, tending to the wounded, mending clothing, burying the dead, and retrieval of items from the battlefield.[16] Women involved in the revolution were just as laden if not more so than men, carrying food, cooking supplies, and bedding.[16] Many soldaderas took their children with them, often because their husband had joined or been conscripted into the army. In 1914, a count of Pancho Villa’s forces included 4,557 male soldiers, 1,256 soldaderas, and 554 children many of whom were babies or toddlers strapped to their mother’s backs.[16] Many women picked up arms and joined in combat alongside men, often when a male comrade, their husband or brother had fallen.[16]

Neutral White Cross
organisation during the Mexican Revolution.

There were also many cases of women who fought in the revolution disguised as men, however most returned to female identities once the conflict had ended.[16] The lasting impacts of the revolution have proved mixed at best. The revolution promised reforms and greater rights for women to one extent or another, but failed to live up to its promises. Thousands of women fought in the battles and provided necessary services to the armies, however their contributions have largely been forgotten and viewed as merely supportive.[16]

There had been agitation for

Francisco Madero and Venustiano Carranza were sympathetic to women's issues, both having female private secretaries who influenced their thinking on the matter.[18] Carranza's secretary Hermila Galindo was an important feminist activist, who in collaboration with others founded a feminist magazine La Mujer Moderna that folded in 1919, but until then advocated for women's rights. Mexican feminist Andrea Villarreal was active agitating against the Díaz regime in the Mexican Liberal Party and was involved with La Mujer Moderna, until it ceased publication. She was known as the "Mexican Joan of Arc" and was a woman represented in U.S. artist Judy Chicago's dinner party.[19]

Carranza made changes in family and marital law with long-lasting consequences. In December 1914, he issued a decree that allowed for divorce under certain circumstances. His initial decree was then expanded when he became president in 1916, which in addition to divorce "gave women the right to alimony and to the management of property, and other similar rights."[20]

With the victory of the Constitutionalist faction in the Revolution, a new constitution was drafted in 1917. It was an advanced social document on many grounds, enshrining rights of labor, empowering the state to expropriate natural resources, and expanding the role of the secular state, but it did not grant women the right to vote, since they were still not considered citizens.[21]

During the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–40), legislation to give women the right to vote was passed, but not implemented. He had campaigned on a "promise to reform the constitution to grant equal rights."[22] Women did not achieve the right to vote until 1953.

Women in the Professions

See also: 100 Women (BBC)

Politics

See also: Amalia García

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Olga Sanchez Cordero
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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo a Mexican politician and scientist who jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Although women comprise half of the Mexican population, they are generally absent from the highest ranks of political power. They did not achieve the vote nationally until 1953. However, President

Distrito Federal, 1999–2000). From 1989 to 2013, the head of the Mexican teachers' trade union was Elba Esther Gordillo, considered at one point the most powerful woman in Mexican politics. She was the first and so far only head of the largest union in Latin America; in 2013 she was arrested for corruption and was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 10 most corrupt Mexicans of 2013.[27] The Minister of Education in the government of Felipe Calderón was Josefina Vázquez Mota, so far the first and only woman to hold the position. She went on to become the presidential candidate for the National Action Party[23] in 2018. First Lady Margarita Zavala wife of the former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón
also ran as an independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico between October 12, 2017, and May 16, 2018.

On the left, President

National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party, the first woman to hold the post;[29] it has been previously held by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
and López Obrador.

Imelda Marrufo Nava receiving the Anne Klein prize in 2014.

Human rights activists

A number of women have been active in various kinds of human rights movements in Mexico.

Women intellectuals, journalists, and writers

See also: Marion Reimers, Vero Rodríguez, and Jimena Sánchez
Silvia Torres-Peimbert is the first Mexican woman to receive her doctorate in astronomy.
Princess of Poland Elena Poniatowska, journalist and essayist

Mexico City earthquake have been important. Historian Virginia Guedea
has specialized in the history of independence-era Mexico.

Fernando Balderas Sánchez, and children in 1996.[36] In 2009, Michoacan journalist María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe disappeared.[37] Former TV journalist at Televisa, María Isabella Cordero was murdered in Chihuahua in 2010.[38] In Veracruz in 2011, crime reporter Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz was killed.[39] Marisol Macías was murdered in Nuevo Laredo by the Los Zetas in 2011.[40]

Women in the arts

Most Famous Woman Artist in Mexican History: Frida Kahlo.
Lydia Lavin a researcher, professor and Mexican fashion designer.

There is a long list of Mexican women in the arts. Probably the most famous woman artist in Mexican history is painter Frida Kahlo, daughter of a prominent photographer Guillermo Kahlo and wife of muralist Diego Rivera. Frida Kahlo was known for her famous self portraits.

In the circle of Mexican muralists was painter María Izquierdo, whose work is often examined with her contemporary Kahlo.[41][42] Ángela Gurría was the first woman elected to the Academia de Artes. Graciela Iturbide is one of a number of Mexican women photographers who have gained recognition. Amalia Hernández founded the Ballet Folklórico de México, which continues to perform regularly at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. Google celebrated Hernández on the anniversary of her 100th birthday.[43]

A number of Mexican actresses have reached prominence outside Mexico, including Salma Hayek[44] and María Félix.[45] Yalitza Aparicio, an indigenous woman from Oaxaca, starred in Alfonso Cuarón's 2018 film Roma.[46]

Architecture

Ángela Gurría

Mexican women have made significant advancements in the field of architecture.

The first prominent woman architect in Mexico was

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes from 1959 to 1969. After her father's death, she worked with Mexican architects Juan O'Gorman and Heriberto Pagelson to complete the Anahuacalli Museum in Coyoacán
.

In the early twenty-first century, Mexico has had several important

technological and technical advances to create something personal and innovative.”[47]

Another prominent 21st-century Mexico City architect, Tatiana Bilbao (1972) has designed several buildings which merge geometry with nature. Her practice has largely focused on sustainable design and social housing. Bilbao was born in Mexico City into a family of architects, and she studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Bilbao is a strong advocate of architectural social justice, and many of her projects have sought to create low-cost housing to address Mexico's affordable housing crisis.[48]

Contemporary issues

Labor rights

See also: Women's suffrage and Women's suffrage in Mexico
A Maya woman, souvenir maker.

Many women in the workforce do not have legal protections, especially domestic workers. In 2019, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed into law protections and benefits for domestic workers, including access to health care and limits on hours of work. The legislation comes after years of activism, including that by Marcelina Bautista, who founded SINACTRAHO, Mexico's first domestic workers union, in 2015. Awareness of the issue got a boost from the 2018 film Roma by Alfonso Cuarón, whose main character is an indigenous female domestic servant. Enforcement of the legislation will be a challenge, since costs to employers will significantly increase.[49]

Violence against women

Main article: Violence against women in Mexico
Further information: Gender inequality in Mexico
Merchant woman in Guanajuato market selling tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica) to make salsa.
A Mayan family by the roadside, 2012.

As of 2012, Mexico has the 16th highest rate of homicides committed against women in the world.[50] In the first 4 months of 2020 987 women and girls were murdered.[51] Approximately 10 women are killed every day in Mexico, and the rate of femicide has doubled in the last 5 years.[50]

According to the 2013 Human Rights Watch, many women do not seek out legal redress after being victims of domestic violence and sexual assault because "the severity of punishments for some sexual offenses are contingent on the "chastity" of the victim and "those who do report them are generally met with suspicion, apathy, and disrespect."[52]

According to a 1997 study by Kaja Finkler, domestic abuse is more prevalent in Mexican society as women are dependent on their spouses for subsistence and self esteem, caused by the embedded societal ideology of romantic love, family structure, and residential arrangements.[53]

Mexican women are at risk for HIV infection because they often are unable to negotiate condom use. According to published research by Olivarrieta and Sotelo (1996) and others, the prevalence of domestic violence against women in Mexican marital relationships varies at between 30 and 60 percent of relationships. In this context, requesting condom use with a stable partner is perceived as a sign of infidelity and asking to use a condom can result in domestic violence.[54]

In Mexico City, the area of Iztapalapa has the highest rates of rape, violence against women, and domestic violence in the capital.[55]

Gender violence is more prevalent in regions along the Mexico-US border and in areas of high drug trading activity and drug violence.

female homicides in Ciudad Juárez involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women and girls since 1993 in the northern Mexican region of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. As of February 2005, the number of murdered women in Ciudad Juarez since 1993 is estimated to be more than 370.[57] The civic organization Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C. was founded by Norma Andrade in Ciudad Juárez. Her daughter was one of the rape and murder victims. Andrade was subsequently attacked twice by assailants.[58] In November 2019, Mexico vowed to stop gender-based violence as new statistics showed killings of women rose more than 10% in 2018.[59]

Women in the Mexican Drug War (2006–present) have been raped,[60][61] tortured,[62][63] and murdered in the conflict.[64][65][66][67][68] They have also been victims of sex trafficking in Mexico.[69][70][71][72][73][74]

Contraception

See also: Abortion in Mexico
Saturnino Herrán Mujer en Tehuantepec ("Woman of Tehuantepec") 1914

Even as late as the 1960s, the use of contraceptives was prohibited by civil law, but there were private clinics where elite women could access care.[75][76][77]

Surging birthrates in Mexico in the 1960s and 70s became a political issue, particularly as agriculture was less productive and Mexico was no longer self-sufficient in food. As Mexico became more urban and industrialized, the government formulated and implemented family planning policies in the 1970s and 80s that aimed at educating Mexicans about the advantages of controlling fertility.

telenovelas (soap operas) that conveyed the government's message about the virtues of family planning. Mexico pioneered the use of soap operas to shape public attitudes on sensitive issues in a format both accessible and enjoyable to a wide range of viewers.[79] Mexico's success in reducing the increase of its population has been the subject of scholarly study.[80][81]

Women campaigning for the decriminalisation of abortion in 2011.

One scholar, the Stanford University historian Ana Raquel Minion, has attributed at least part of Mexico's success to forced sterilization programs. In her 2018 text Undocumented Lives, she writes:

"After the new Ley General of 1974 passed, some medical authorities in public health care institutions responded to the growing pressures to lower birth rates by forcibly sterilizing working-class women immediately after they delivered via cesarean section. Because most of these cases went undetected and undenounced, their exact number is unknown. However, a governmental study performed in 1987 found staggering results. Ten percent of the women in the national sample claimed to have been sterilized without having been asked; 25 percent affirmed they were not informed that sterilization was an irreversible method of birth control or that other options existed; and 70 percent declared that they had been sterilized immediately after giving brith or having an abortion."[82]

Contraception is still a big issue for Mexican women with a population of 107 million. It is the second most populous nation in Latin America. The population trend is even expected to grow in size in a little over thirty years. With a population that keeps increasing it was the first nation in 1973 to establish a family planning program. It is called MEXFAM (The Mexican Family Planning Association); the program has been recorded to have decreased Mexican households from 7.2 children to 2.4 in 1999.[83]

Contraceptive use in rural areas is still far lower than that of urban areas. Approximately 25% of Mexican women live in rural areas, and of that, only 44% of those use birth control, and their fertility rate, 4.7%, is almost twice that of urban women.”[83] Mexico was even able to incorporate a sexual education program in the schools to educate on contraception, but with many young girls living in rural areas, they are usually not able to attend.

Emergency Contraception in Mexico Since the introduction of Emergency Contraception (EC) into the Mexican family planning guidelines in 2004, knowledge and usage of EC has been rapidly growing (Han, 2017). The past years, EC has been available as an over-the-counter product without age restriction and also free of charge in the national health system. So far, there are 13 different kinds of pills that can be purchased without prescription (LNG-EC products) and one where a prescription is needed (UPA-EC product) (ICEC, 2012). The rapid growth in education and use of Emergency Contraception, can be seen in a study conducted by Leo Han et. Al., comparing data from the ENADID survey from 2006, 2009, and 2014. EC knowledge among women has accordingly inclined from 62% in 2006, 79% in 2009 to 83% in 2014, and the use EC among women who have generally used contraception rose from 3% (2006), to 11% (2009) to 14% (2014) (Han, 2017). However, certain disparities in the increased knowledge have been identified. Reproductive health experts have concluded, that “stigma, gender, relationships and ethnicity may all play a role in a woman´s experience in receiving birth control” (Rafanelli, 2022), leading to less, or even denied access to EC. Lower wealth and education, rural living and indigenous status on access and knowledge are associated with less possibilities of contact to EC resources, denying women in certain living situations the chances to break out of sometimes repressive gender roles and with less bodily autonomy. So while the rapid growth in knowledge and use of Emergency Contraception in Mexico can be seen as a successful step in women's empowerment, a lot of steps still must be taken in order to include Mexican women in all kinds of living situations.

Sexuality

There are still persisting inequalities between levels of sexual experience between females and males. In national survey of Mexican youth published in 2000, 22% of men and 11% of women of the age 16 had admitted to having experienced sexual intercourse.[84] However, these rates for both men and women remain fairly low due to the cultural perception that it is inappropriate to engage in intercourse before marriage. This shared cultural belief stems from the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church which has had great influence over Latin American cultures.[85]

Perceptions of beauty

Main articles: Miss Mexico Organization and Mexicana Universal

Mexican women have participated in international beauty competitions.

Activism

International Women's Day march in Mexico City
UNAM

In 2020, activists called for a one-day strike by women on March 9, the day after International Women's Day (March 8). The strike has been called "A Day Without Women," to emphasize women's importance in Mexico. At the March 8th demonstration in Mexico City, there was a crowd estimated at 80,000 people. There was a widespread response to the strike the next day as well, with both events reported in the international press.[86][87][88] The strike is part of a new wave of feminism in Mexico.[89] President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been called tone-deaf on the issue, a source of feminist criticism.[90]

Official logo of the government of Mexico

The original logo of the Government of Mexico, in force since

Grito de Dolores with which the War of Independence began, and José María Morelos
(1765-1815), one of the main leaders of the independence struggle.

Female version

A new official logo featuring prominent women in the country's history on the occasion of the commemoration of

sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
(1648-1695), one of the main exponents of the Golden Age of literature in Spanish thanks to her lyrical and dramatic work, both religious and profane stars in the far left of the image. On the opposite side, the revolutionary
Yucatan
.

See also

Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez

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