{"product_id":"catholic-women-and-mexican-politics-1750-1940-9780691177243","title":"Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in the untold story of how the Mexican Catholic church in the nineteenth century excluded, then accepted, and then came to depend on women as leaders in church organizations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut much more than a study of women and the church or the feminization of piety, the book links new female lay associations beginning in the 1840s to the surprisingly early politicization of Catholic women in Mexico. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials spanning more than a century of Mexican political life, Chowning boldly argues that Catholic women played a vital role in the church's resurrection as a political force in Mexico after liberal policies left it for dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShedding light on the importance of informal political power, this book places Catholic women at the forefront of Mexican conservatism and shows how they kept loyalty to the church strong when the church itself was weak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Chowning\u003c\/b\u003e holds the Muriel McKevitt Sonne Chair in Latin American History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoac?n from the Late Colony to the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50388086522130,"sku":"9780691177243","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1b4283b-9ed0-4595-a251-51325dc093d2.jpg?v=1737077460","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/catholic-women-and-mexican-politics-1750-1940-9780691177243","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}