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• Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives ed. by Kathy Sosa et al.
• Teresa Palomo Acosta

Dolores Huerta, the distinguished United Farmers Workers Union leader, opens Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives by asserting that "a revolutionary woman wants change, not mere cosmetic change but change to the status quo, and she is willing to sacrifice to make this happen" (xi). Indeed, these are the guiding principles of the women whose determination to alter the status quo are recounted in this collection of eighteen essays by contributors who are academics, poets, novelists, activists, artists, and journalists.

We learn, for instance, that each new superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District always hears from Genoveva Morales soon after they assume their position. "I've been expecting your call," they reportedly tell her when she contacts them (219). The audacity with which Morales pursued legal challenges to educational segregation over more than three decades is a characteristic equally shared by the book's other activists in Texas and in Mexico—from the bold translator Malinalli in the sixteenth century to the countless numbers of steadfast soldaderas of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the brave feminists of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and the courageous 1990s Zapatistas of Oaxaca. Linking these women over six centuries through their deeds and words, the Revolutionary Women authors illustrate how these activists drew on personal and female organizational strength to pursue justice and transform society.

The editors and contributors write with fervor about Adina De Zavala, Rena Maverick Green, and Emily Edwards, three of the first historic sites preservationists in Texas; the Mexican Revolution journalist Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza, founder of Vésper: Justicia y Libertad; Tejana labor activist Emma Tenayuca, a major leader of the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike; Alice Dickerson Montemayor, a LULAC women's rights leader of her time; Frida Kahlo, the cutting-edge painter; and Gloria Anzaldúa, the groundbreaking, openly lesbian Chicana thinker and writer. Less familiar individuals who appear in the collection are artist and writer Nahui Olin and singer Chavela Vargas, whose contributions to the Mexican Renaissance and to the world of entertainment, respectively, overturned traditional notions of gender and sexuality.

Additional chapters include the patron saint of revolutionaries, La Virgen de Guadalupe; imprisoned nun María Concepción Acevedo de la Llata; diplomat Jane McManus Storm Cazneau; healer and revolutionary Teresa Urea; and a "reimagined" story of two "valientas," or brave women, [End Page 94] who fled the Mexican Revolution for the United States, thereby enabling new generations of Tejana leaders.

The activists of Revolutionary Women are united by their distinctive ability, perseverance, and political savvy. They undertook initiatives that have brought positive changes to other women, their descendants, and the larger society. Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives, the book's subtitle, declares that all these women sought a world that guarantees equality in every aspect of human experience; they achieved many of their visions.

The editors have organized a revelatory journey about female power in Texas and Mexico, ensuring that the authors unshackle us from outdated ideas of leadership: from Sor Juana's poetic declarations, to Anzaldúa's incisive influence on mestizas, to the Zapatistas' ten-point Women's Revolutionary Law, which upholds the dignity and talents of females. Professor Norma Elia Cantú's epilogue affirms the book's purpose with one final word: "¡Adelante!" (238).

审核人：

• 德克萨斯和墨西哥的革命女性：索尔达德拉斯、圣徒和颠覆者的肖像编辑。凯西索萨等人。
• 特蕾莎·帕洛莫·阿科斯塔

杰出的联合农民工人工会领袖多洛雷斯·韦尔塔 (Dolores Huerta) 在《德克萨斯和墨西哥的革命女性：索尔达德拉斯、圣徒和颠覆者的肖像》一书开篇时断言“革命女性想要改变，不仅仅是表面上的改变，而是改变现状，她愿意为此做出牺牲”（xi）。事实上，这些是女性的指导原则，她们决心改变现状，在这本由学者、诗人、小说家、活动家、艺术家和记者撰写的 18 篇文章中有所叙述。

例如，我们了解到，Uvalde 联合独立学区的每位新校长在上任后不久都会收到 Genoveva Morales 的消息。“我一直在等你的电话，”据报道，当她联系他们时，他们告诉她 (219)。与莫拉莱斯在更追求法律的挑战，教育偏析超过三个十年的大胆是在得克萨斯州书的其他活动家和平等共享的特点墨西哥从十六世纪的大胆译者Malinalli以坚定的无数soldaderas的1910 年的墨西哥革命，1960 年代和 1970 年代勇敢的奇卡诺运动女权主义者，以及 1990 年代勇敢的瓦哈卡萨帕塔主义者。六个世纪以来，通过言行将这些女性联系起来，革命女性作者说明了这些活动家如何利用个人和女性组织力量来追求正义和改造社会。

编辑和撰稿人热情地撰写了 Adina De Zavala、Rena Maverick Green 和 Emily Edwards，他们是德克萨斯州最早的三位历史遗迹保护主义者；墨西哥革命记者 Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza，Vésper: Justicia y Libertad 的创始人; Tejana 劳工活动家 Emma Tenayuca，1938 年 Pecan Shellers 罢工的主要领导人；Alice Dickerson Montemayor，她那个时代的 LULAC 妇女权利领袖；新锐画家弗里达·卡罗；和 Gloria Anzaldúa，一位开创性的、公开的女同性恋奇卡纳思想家和作家。出现在该系列中的不太熟悉的人是艺术家兼作家 Nahui Olin 和歌手 Chavela Vargas，他们分别对墨西哥文艺复兴和娱乐世界的贡献颠覆了传统的性别和性观念。

其他章节包括革命者的守护神 La Virgen de Guadalupe；被监禁的修女 María Concepción Acevedo de la Llata；外交官简·麦克马纳斯·斯托姆·卡兹诺；治疗者和革命者特蕾莎·尿素；以及一个“重新想象”的故事，讲述了两个“valientas”（即勇敢的女性）[End Page 94]逃离墨西哥革命前往美国，从而使新一代 Tejana 领导人成为可能。

革命妇女的积极分子以其独特的能力、毅力和政治头脑而团结在一起。他们采取的举措为其他女性、她们的后代和整个社会带来了积极的变化。这本书的副标题《索尔达德拉斯、圣徒和颠覆者的肖像》宣称，所有这些女性都在寻求一个在人类经验的各个方面都保证平等的世界；他们实现了许多愿景。

编辑们组织了一次关于德克萨斯和墨西哥女性权力的启示之旅，确保作者将我们从过时的领导观念中解脱出来：从 Sor Juana 的诗意宣言，到Anzaldúa对mestizas的深刻影响，再到Zapatistas 的十点妇女革命法，维护女性的尊严和才能。Norma Elia Cantú 教授的结语用最后一句话肯定了本书的目的：“¡Adelante！” (238)。