A counterweight to feminism? Mothers’ Day in Mexico was born not only as a gesture of love, but as an institutional strategy. In 1922, journalist Rafael Alducín, director of Excélsior, launched the call to officialize on May 10, with the support of the Catholic Church and the government of Álvaro Obregón. However, the background is more complex: it emerged as a conservative response after the first Feminist Congress in Yucatán (1916), which prom…
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A counterweight to feminism? Mothers’ Day in Mexico was born not only as a gesture of love, but as an institutional strategy. In 1922, journalist Rafael Alducín, director of Excélsior, launched the call to officialize on May 10, with the support of the Catholic Church and the government of Álvaro Obregón. However, the background is more complex: it emerged as a conservative response after the first Feminist Congress in Yucatán (1916), which prom…