Abstract
This article examines pedagogical materials and Catholic youth magazines to uncover how, between 1926 and 1939, the Juventud Católica Femenina Mexicana (JCFM) pursued peasant moralization campaigns driven by young women’s shared distrust of Indigenous and mixed-race campesinas. It unearths the authoritarian dimensions of the group’s educational initiatives and exposes these efforts as fundamentally racial, gendered, and class-conscious political and religious projects. Moreover, this article traces how the JCFM, as an influential upper-class laywomen’s group, tried—and failed—to establish a nationwide educational curriculum grounded in Church doctrine to counter the influence of Protestant missions and Mexico’s nascent Secretariat of Public Education. It attributes these shortcomings to laywomen’s adherence to social hierarchy and their reluctance to offer meaningful solutions to peasant women’s economic hardships.
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