02212cam a2200373 i 4500 630047530 TxAuBib 20070509120000.0 060714s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006023353 9781933693040 alkaline paper 1933693045 alkaline paper DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda eng spa Poniatowska, Elena. Soldaderas English. Las Soldaderas : Women of the Mexican Revolution / by Elena Poniatowska ; translation by David Romo. First edition. El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, 2006. 93 pages ; 21cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The photographs of Las Soldaderas and Elena Poniatowska's remarkable commentary rescue the women of the Mexican Revolution from the dust and oblivion of history. These are the Adelitas and Valentinas celebrated in famous corridos mexicanos, but whose destiny was much more profound and tragic than the idealistic words of ballads. The photographs remind Poniatowska of the trail of women warriors that begins with the Spanish conquest and continues to Mexico's violent revolution. These women are valiant, furious, loyal, maternal, and hardworking; they wear a mask that is part immaculate virgin, part mother and wife, and part savage warrior; and they are joined together in the cruel hymn of blood and death from which they built their own history of the Revolution. The photographs are culled from the vast Casasola Collection in the Fototeca Nacional of the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. 20070509. Camp followers Mexico History Pictorial works. Women Mexico Social conditions Pictorial works. Women and the military Mexico History Pictorial works. Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Women Pictorial works. Illustrated works. Romo, David Dorado. TXBRI