Las ligas femeninas ante el alcoholismo y la salubridad en el México posrevolucionario, 1934-1946

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze how women’s leagues of different States of the Republic of Mexico were endowed with a legal entity and became a vindictive political subject that, coupled with the fight for women’s rights, claimed other types of material developments such as reducing the high rates of alcoholism and improving the sanitation conditions in their localities. Specifically, the groups and assemblies promoted by or linked to the United Front for Women’s Rights (1935-1940) and the National Bloc of Revolutionary Women (1940-1946) during the governments of Lazaro Cardenas and Manuel Avila Camacho will be studied.