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This thesis will examine the role of women in the Cristero rebellion, the popular uprising that resulted from the political battle between the revolutionary Mexican state and the Catholic Church between 1926 and 1929. My focus will be primarily on the state of Jalisco, one of the regions in which cristero support and organization was most vociferous. Many women in Jalisco were willing to support the Church, if not in battle, in the form of organizational units or lay Catholic organizations. An example of one such organizational unit which this thesis will examine was the Brigadas Femeninas de Santa Juana de Arco (Feminine Brigades of St. Joan of Arc), founded in the town of Zapopan in 1926. ...
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