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Petra Herrera

June 27, 2017

The Last Known Survivor of the Mexican Revolution Was a Soldadera

One of the oldest living people in 2015 was a woman who'd fought in the Mexican Revolution - not unlike Petra Herrera, earlier covered here.
January 11, 2016

Photographs of soldaderas

What can photographs from the Mexican Revolution tell us about women's roles, or how women's roles were perceived?
Petra Herrera (late 1800s?-early 1900s)
Soldadera Princess
Mexican revolutionary who bombed bridges, led hundreds of women into battle, and was instrumental in turning the tide of the war for the revolutionaries.

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