Benita
By Mexican author Benita GaleanaTranslated by Amy Diane Prince
ISBN: 0-935480-69-2
Price: $16.00
Pages: 176
Mexican political activist Benita Galeana rose from an obscure birth in a small village to become an outspoken advocate for workers' rights. In this volume she recounts the events of her incredible life and recalls how she became a revolutionary. Galeana's simple language reveals her strength, intelligence and passion for life. She writes with humor, insight and dignity of her experiences as an abused child and struggling young mother. She describes life in a peasant hovel, in urban cabarets, at political meetings and in Mexican jails. The publication of this powerful book, written in a strong, moving style and sensitively translated by Amy Prince, coincides with the transformation of Benita's house into a cultural and historic landmark.
"Benita Galeana's understanding of the intersections between class and gender...particularly of her plight as a single mother and her fierce struggle for workers' rights make Benita a fascinating text."
--World Literature Today
"An invaluable document, both as a testament to strong Hispanic women in a country notoriously short on that commodity and as an important guide to understanding Mexican ideological dissent in the twentieth century."
--Booklist