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Interview participants:Subject 1 Manuela Panti Escalante was 71 years old at the time of the interview. Her husband had died 7 years before. They had two children: a woman and man and she lived with her (son? Daughter? Children?) and three grandchildren. She talked about the construction of the statue/monument to mothers/maternity in the 1970s, following a proposal of the teacher Ramón Hernández in the late 1960s. He worked with a group of women who were mothers to put on dances, vigils, and a carnival with a queen to raise money for community improvements. The Secretary was Isabel Novelo and the treasurer was Serfina Heredía, but she didn’t want to take the money so she [Maria Panti Escalanti] managed the money. She spoke about teachers Liberata Cetina and her husband Tiburcio Flota Pérez. Liberata was a Catholic and taught women to make flowers, knit, embroider and sew. She did not participate in politics beyond voting. Other women did participate in politics. Gumersinda Pérez brought political women to Tixmehuac, including Soledad Rivero [based on research I think she was a candidate for congress] and Gumersinda organized assemblies and worked with her husband to bring people to Mérida. Manuela Panti Escalante’s mother was active in this organizing and so was Saturnina Medina (an evangelical Presbyterian), who went with another woman to Mérida. Maneula Panti Escalante talked about different women’s religious affiliations and practices and Catholic gremios (leagues) in Tixmehuac. She also talked about dancing – both community dancing and cultural dancing. She mentioned how some people went to dance with Lázaro Cárdenas (perhaps when he visited the community?) She also spoke about her work as a midwife. How she helped induce and encourage labor with injections, coffee, and medicinal tea; how she worked independently and with a nurse and a doctor – who had been in the community for about 20 or 25 years at the time of the interview. UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Created with handheld cassette recorder
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Language
Spanish
Subject
Clothing Tabasquen steer Brothers Currency Cents Babies Pay Syndicates Organizing, women Pensions Elections Popular assembly Cooperative store Literacy Women Voting incentives Hacienda owners Redistribution Imprisonment Widows Strike Money Women activists Newspaper Electoral credential (voter registration card) Suffrage Pesos Cooperatives Mothers Corn mills Progresa (Public Welfare Program) Corn Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) Liga Femenil de Lucha Social Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN) Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) Lázaro Cárdenas Presidential Administration (1934-1940) Temozón de Mena y Sosa (Abala, Yucatán, Mexico) Abalá (Yucatán, Mexico) Mérida (Yucatán, Mexico) Mena, Ignacio Sosa, Adalberto Cárdenas Solórzano, Cuauhtémoc Fox, Vicente Dominguez, Juana Peón, Humberto Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 Pueblos Yucatecos Project: Community of Temozon de Mena y Sosa (Abala, Yucatán, Mexico)
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Temozón de Mena y Sosa (Abala, Yucatán, Mexico) Abalá (Yucatán, Mexico) Mérida (Yucatán, Mexico)
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