María Teresa Fernández Aceves examines the lives, political careers, and participation in the public sphere of five women who aided in the creation of a modern culture in twentieth-century Mexico and, in some ways, Latin America as a whole.
María Teresa Fernández Aceves is a professor of social anthropology at Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social–Occidente in Jalisco, Mexico. She is the author of a book in Spanish about women in twentieth-century Mexico.
