Mujeres en la Historia & Historias de Mujeres by Gracia Molina de Pick and Carmen Lugo Hubp

 On Friday, August 28 at 1PM, Mexico City time, at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City, Gracia Molina de Pick , Independent Scholar and Feminist Community Activist and  her co-author Carmen Lugo Hubp, Investi-gadora Universitaria and Human  and Feminist Rights Activist  will present their book Mujeres en la Historia-Historias de Mujeres.This very significant work  rescues and highlights the role that Mexican women have played in shaping the country’s identity, a role largely ignored by traditional history books.

 The authors used original historical sources in their extensive research in order to uncover the names and deeds of the notable women whose lives are depicted in the book which took five years to produce. It is an accessible and amenable text  in Spanish designed for Middle and High School students and the general public, It covers the Mexican Indigenous period prior to 1492 through the first half of the XX century. The voices of women never before heard come to life as actors in the social, political and cultural milieu of Mexico. Many of these women were forgotten, degraded, or silenced by the official historiography. Its title Women in History/Stories of Women documents the participation of women as builders of the Mexican nationhood and identity. Their lives and stories are the legacy of the women of Mexico today and honor women of all times and places.

  Similar book presentations will take place in October in San Diego, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and other locations in California and the U.S. during the months of October and November.

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