The political and social participation of women

in the Federal District towards the middle of the 20th century (1940-1952)

Authors

  • María Cristina Sánchez Mejorada División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Ciudad de México, México https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8766-5125

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24275/BQAX6412

Keywords:

political participation, social participation , women

Abstract

The struggle of women to obtain rights, especially political rights, to be recognized as Mexican citizens, dates back to the end of the 19th century, when some demanded greater participation in the public sphere.The public and the private are representations of society, in the first the activities of Citizenship take place. The principles of equality and freedom were designed for individuals Citizens -heads of families-owners, men, adults. Those who did not meet these biological and social characteristics were excluded from participating in the public sphere and from dominating in the private sphere. The public space or sphere has been identified as the place of work that generates income, collective action, power; while the private sphere refers to the private world, to the domestic sphere, to unpaid work. The first has been the fundamental responsibility of men and the second of women.

Author Biography

María Cristina Sánchez Mejorada, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Ciudad de México, México

Ma. Cristina Sánchez Mejorada Fernández has a degree in Social Work from the Vasco de Quiroga School, with the thesis "Possibilities and Limitations of Social Work within the Government Structure of the Department of the Federal District", Master in Research and Social Sciences from the Center of Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) with the thesis "Las Mujeres de las Cruces. Their work in three areas of daily life" and a PhD in Urban Design from the Autonomous Metropolitan University with the thesis "Politics and Urban Management in the Federal District (1940-1952)”. She has experience in Community Development, Research and Teaching. He participated in an inter-institutional and multidisciplinary project financed by CONACYT called "Global City, local processes: urban conflicts and sociocultural strategies in the construction of a sense of belonging and territory in Mexico City", whose objective is to analyze social conflicts in the city. of Mexico around the use, meaning and appropriation of the urban territory, where the global logic breaks in and transforms the local processes; and from this, the groups inserted in these processes generate socio-cultural strategies to consolidate their local belonging and build diverse -and diffuse- forms of substantive citizenship in Mexico City. She currently participates in another similar project with CONACYT financing whose title is entitled "The memories of the urban: territory, identities and sense of belonging in the face of neoliberal urbanization" (UAM Iztapalapa, Azcapotzalco, DEH, UNAM) 2018-2023. This project seeks to describe and analyze the role that social memory plays in the construction of a sense of belonging in urban contexts that are disrupted by the socio-spatial phenomena characteristic of neoliberal urbanization: social segregation, fragmentation, gentrification, megaprojects, spaces islands and urban speculation, among others.

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2001-12-01

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Sánchez Mejorada, M. C. (2001). The political and social participation of women: in the Federal District towards the middle of the 20th century (1940-1952). ANUARIO DE ESPACIOS URBANOS, HISTORIA, CULTURA Y DISEÑO, (08), 283–311. https://doi.org/10.24275/BQAX6412

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No. 08 (2001): Anuario de Espacios Urbanos, Historia, Cultura y Diseño

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