The Extraordinary Life of Juana Catarina Romero

Gender and Power in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Francie R. Chassen-López (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

364 Seiten

2026
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4720-9 (ISBN)

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The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This biography of Juana Catarina Romero (1837–1915) shatters many of the stereotypes of nineteenth-century women and provides a new perspective of women's national agency during a time in which women could neither vote nor hold political office. Romero's breathtaking climb from illiterate cigarette peddler and Liberal spy to wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and, finally, cacica (political boss) of the city of Tehuantepec, despite the opposition of male elites, reveals the growing fluidity of class, race, and ethnicity.

Francie Chassen-López's fascinating biography of Romero offers rich insight into the complexities of modernization as it developed on the periphery of Mexico. Romero sought a Tehuantepec-style modernity, a modus vivendi between modernization, Catholicism, and isthmian Zapotec culture. Like her friend President Porfirio Díaz, Romero formed part of a group of ambitious Mexicans of modest origins, forged in civil war, who would build the Mexican nation-state.

Francie Chassen-López is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico, 1867–1911.

List of Illustration
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Cast of Characters
Introduction
Chapter 1: A New Republic
Chapter 2: War
Chapter 3: A Female Entrepreneur
Chapter 4: Social Engineering
Chapter 5: Modernity and Consumer Society
Chapter 6: The Cacica
Chapter 7: The Final Years 
Conclusions 
Notes 
Glossary 
Bibliography 
Index 

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2026
Reihe/Serie	Confluencias
Zusatzinfo	17 photographs, 3 illus., 4 maps, 1 table
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4962-4720-5 / 1496247205
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4720-9 / 9781496247209
Zustand	Neuware