Andrea Villarreal

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Andrea Villarreal ( born 1881, Coahuila, Mexico- died. 1963, San Antonio, Texas, USA) was a Mexican revolutionary, journalist and feminist. Often referred to in the press as the Mexican Joan of Arc.

She gave her vocal support to the liberal-radical Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) opposing the dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911), during the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1917.

She was originally from Coahuila, but was forced to flee with her sister Teresa to the U.S. state of Texas where she published two newsapers from exile in San Antonio, the feminist newspaper La Mujer Moderna (The Modern Woman, 1910) and the revolutionary El Obrero (The Worker)

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• W. Dirk Raat, Revoltosos: Mexico's Rebels in the United States, 1903-1923 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981). At Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. [1] (accessed October 19, 2007).
• Perez, Emma The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas Into History, Published 1999, Indiana University Press ISBN 0253335043 pages 68 – 69 . At Google books [2] (accessed October 19, 2007). 1
• Andrea Villarreal at the Dinner Party Database, Brooklyn Museum. (accessed October 19, 2007).