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FERNANDEZ ACEVES, María Teresa. Politics and Citizenship: María Guadalupe Urzúa’s Leadership of the Confederación Nacional Campesina, 1953-1957. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2017, vol.38, n.149, pp.71-100. ISSN 2448-7554.

This article examines how María Guadalupe Urzúa Flores worked to consolidate her leadership and political ascent in Mexico’s Confederación Nacional Campesina (CNC, “National Confederation of Peasants”), and in the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI, “Institutional Revolutionary Party”) during her time as Director of the CNC’s Secretariat of Women’s Action. It explores the process through which women became affiliated to the PRI In the decade of 1950, and identifies the social policies that the Secretariat of Women’s Action strove to have implemented from 1953 to 1955; two key years for the political participation of women in Mexico.

Palavras-chave : social policies; women’s suffrage; elections; women; nutrition.

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