Women in Mexico during the 1920s in the writings of Anita Brenner

Abstract

Anita Brenner (1905-1974) was a Jewish writer who was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She wrote articles and books about Mexico, the Mexican Revolution, art and the indigenous Mexican cultures. She also wrote about the Jewish immigrants who arrived in Mexico during the twenties. In many of this writings, Anita made visible the women she met, those around her and those that called her attention. In 1925, when she was nineteen years old and lived in Mexico City, she wrote an article exclusively about the Jewish immigrant women who had arrived in Mexico in those years. In her private journals, which she wrote during her stay in Mexico from 1925 to 1927, she expressed her continue interest in women. From written culture and gender as a category of historical analysis, her writings are examined to know the context of the women in the beginning of the twentieth century in Mexico.