Soldaderas

As Soldaderas to refer to the female soldiers who fought during the Mexican Revolution against the regime of Porfirio Díaz to gain more rights and more freedom. The most famous Soldaderas Dolores Jiménez y Muro were well and Hermila Galindo.

Women of the revolutionary movement joined mostly from civil rights and feminist reasons to include, but are largely disappeared from the military offices following the successful revolution.

Emblematic of the Soldadera was the legendary Adelita that. Several poems and songs, especially in the corridos, emerges as a theme Today the Adelita in Mexico has a similar status such as Joan of Arc in France.

Others

The mother of Anthony Quinn, Manuela Oaxaca Quinn was Soldadera.