Kathleen McIntyre’s “‘Arriba las Metodistas’: Educación protestante, deportes y sufragio transnacional”

“‘Arriba las Metodistas’: Educación protestante, deportes y sufragio transnacional” explores the intersection of transnational suffrage movements, sports participation, revolutionary nationalism, and new debates about the role of Protestant education in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. I argue that Protestant girls’ schools helped pave the way for women’s activism by encouraging girls to play team sports and to support initiatives for women gaining greater political rights. This was a huge shift because (1) the government placed a new emphasis on Native peoples and girls’ educational rights and (2) the government saw team sports as a way to assimilate indigenous communities and young women into healthy citizens who supported the tenets of the nationalist 1910 revolution.This article is part of a proposed volume on Methodist history tentatively entitled El Metodismo en perspectiva histórica: Finales del siglo XIX hasta la post revolución.