La Mujer Proletaria: Poemas Escolares

Carmen Basurto, 1935

Basurto, Carmen. La Mujer Proletaria: Poemas Escolares. [Mexico, D.F.] Mixcoac: np, 1935. 19 cm, 21, (3), pp.; poems, index, and advertisement for Basurto’s previous booklet “Alborada”, two sheets laid-in, printed recto only, each with a poem: “La Mujer Proletaria” (not otherwise printed in the booklet), and an homage to Palma Guillen, Mexico’s first female ambassador, appointed in 1935; in stapled pictorial wrapper, very small stain at foredge, illustrated by Enrique Galindo, with printed flaps. Signed by the author in ink with dedication to the feminist Leonor Llach on the “dedicatoria” page.

Basurto was a teacher and poet. She wrote a number of books and plays for children and was an advocate for the education of women and girls. The present work reflects the hope of many feminists following the election of President Lazaro Cardenas and his promises of labor reform and women’s civil rights. The title poem voices the suffering and danger of uneducated women, and of women in the workplace, exposed to the “malintentions” of their male bosses.

From the library of Leonor Llach, a writer who published on labor and women’s rights, including suffrage, education, domestic subordination, occupational segregation, and the yoke of traditional femininity. She was involved in the women’s organization of the PRI and was director of the library at the Ministry of Public Education (SEP).

Three copies described in OCLC: BNM, UCLA, and Univ. of Ill. None mention the additional sheets.

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