{"product_id":"the-mysterious-sofia-9781496217608","title":"The Mysterious Sofia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho was the “Mysterious Sofía,” whose letter in November 1934 was sent from Washington DC to Mexico City and intercepted by the Mexican Secret Service? In \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Sofía\u003c\/i\u003e Stephen J. C. Andes usesthe remarkable story of Sofía del Valle to tellthe history of Catholicism’s global shift from north to south and the importance of women to Catholic survival and change over the course of the twentieth century. As a devout Catholic single woman, neither nun nor mother, del Valle resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, became a labor activist in a time of class conflict, founded an educational movement, toured the United States as a public lecturer, and raised money for Catholic ministries—all in an age dominated by economic depression, gender prejudice, and racial discrimination. The rise of the Global South marked a new power dynamic within the Church as Latin America moved from the margins of activism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen J. C. Andes’ \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Sofía\u003c\/i\u003e is a solid contribution to the growing body of literature on the lives of elite and conservative women in Latin America. Its function as an exploration of wealthy Catholic views establishes it as an important work, but the form in which Andes packages this knowledge is just as important.\"—Jason Dormady, \u003ci\u003eLatin Americanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With a sensitive, creative, and highly readable style, Andes narrates the life of Sofía del Valle, a complex, dynamic, and fascinating Mexican Catholic activist and lay leader. Yet Andes has done more than write a biography: he has also vividly portrayed the transnational world in which Sofía lived—a world in which lay activists and clergy circulated between Mexico, Europe, the Vatican, and the United States, exchanging ideas and plans, founding vibrant new organizations and publications, and working to engage Catholics in new ways with their Church. . . . Andes has brilliantly narrated an essentially Mexican story, one that explains and investigates the long and often contentious interplay between Church, state, and society in twentieth-century Mexico.”—Julia G. Young, author of \u003ci\u003eMexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNota Bene, Dear Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: \u003ci\u003eDe te fabula narratur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1. The Mysterious Sofía\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Days of the Dead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Sophie Letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Miss del Valle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Mastermind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude: Tere Huidobro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2. A Family Romance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Little Flowers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Sofía’s Belle Époque\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Vocation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Respectable Telephone Operator\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Preparing the Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude: Family Albums\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Mexican Odyssey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. The Catacombs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. The Voyage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. The Test\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Gasparri’s Parrots\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. A Long, Hot Roman Summer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. The Return\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. The Peace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude:\u003ci\u003e Las viejitas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4. A Woman Alone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Out of the Shadows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. The New Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20. \u003ci\u003eLes femmes internationales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21. Terrible Beasts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22. Winter in the City of Light\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23. Doubt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24. Lourdes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25. The Road to Warsaw\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e26. Borders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27. Bridges\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude: Walls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 5. Catholic Vagabond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28. Miss del Valle Goes to Washington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29. The Plan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30. The Deception of Miss Duffy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31. Consider the Lobster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32. Golden Hour of the Little Flower\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e33. On the Road\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34. \u003ci\u003eLa patria\u003c\/i\u003e Calls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostlude: Day’s End\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatins: A Few Days After\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409228505431,"sku":"9781496217608","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496217608.jpg?v=1730506046","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mysterious-sofia-9781496217608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}