Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution Author(s): Andrés Reséndez Fuentes Source: The Americas, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Apr., 1995), pp. 525-553 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1007679 Accessed: 26-07-2019 23:52 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Cambridge University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Americas This content downloaded from 132.174.254.118 on Fri, 26 Jul 2019 23:52:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms The Americas 51:4 April 1995, 525-553 Copyright by the Academy of American Franciscan History BATTLEGROUND WOMEN: SOLDADERAS AND FEMALE SOLDIERS IN THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION' Revolution and women did not mix well, at least in the eyes of most leaders of the insurrection that swept Mexico in 1910-17. Moreover, common wisdom suggested that armies were no place for the "gen- tler sex" and hence the two kinds of women that did accompany men to the battleground-female soldiers and soldaderas-were generally regarded as marginal to the fighting and extraordinary, or strange, in character.2 Female soldiers received much notice in the press and arts during the revolution and in its aftermath.