Mujeres comunistas

Abstract

Ihis article reviews publications dealing with Communism in Mexico in the twentieth century. One of these is a biographical dictionary, La rojerta, which includes 139 short biographies of mostly men (17 women), some well-known and some not. The other three are biographies of Communist women: Cuca Garcia (1889-1973), Teresa Proenza (1908-1999), and Fernanda Campa (1940-2019). The books portray the lives and times of these women, dealing with political organizations and important historical events from the perspective of the women who experienced them. The article also draws some comparisons between the writing of these women’s lives and the writing of men’s biographies, pointing to how the authors of these biographies link their subject’s politics to an awareness of being a woman in a man’s world.