Las Hijas del Anáhuac Laureana Wright de Kleinhans and Other Pioneering Women in Journalism in the Late Nineteenth Century

• Published in: Occupying Our Space p. 59
• Main Author: CRISTINA DEVEREAUX RAMÍREZ
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 02.04.2015
• Subjects: American studies; Anthropology; Aristotelian rhetoric; Artists; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Cognitive psychology; Communications; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Epideictic rhetoric; Ethnography; Ethnology; Femininity; Gender identity; Gender studies; Human populations; Human rights; Intellect; Intelligence; Jurisprudence; Labor economics; Latin American literature; Latin American studies; Law; Literary criticism; Literary genres; Literary studies; Literature; Men; Natural law; Natural rights; Occupations; Persons; Philosophy of law; Poetry; Population studies; Psychology; Rhetoric; Schools of rhetoric; Social sciences; Womens rights; Writers; Writing; Written communication
• ISBN: 9780816530748; 0816530742

Laureana Wright de Kleinhans’s 1891 declaration did not necessarily echo the political sentiments of the majority of Mexicans in the late nineteenth century. After expelling the Spanish and the French, Mexico had embarked on a postcolonial path to peace and independence. Wright de Kleinhans believed women should reap the rewards of this new liberty and progress, but the social barriers to take part in this emancipation remained in place. She was writing from the historical context of Mexico in a time of perceived peace, order, and intellectual progress. I say “perceived” because this ideal existed primarily for the wealthy and