The Women Of '68: The Memory Of The Student Struggle

Abstract

The women of 1968 played a fundamental role in the student movement experienced in Mexico during 1968, which left in its wake one of the most painful memories for social movements, the massacre of October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. To this end, this article seeks to analyze the subway memories and the personal, political and social implications experienced by the women students and participants of this student movement. Through the review of the interview of Ana Ignacia Rodríguez Márquez, which was documented in the framework of the M68

Memorial at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, we seek an approach that reconstructs the collective memory around the role of women in social movements. Highlighting the participation and protagonism of women in these spaces reflects the struggle and conquest for their rights in terms of access to education, participation, involvement and positioning, but also marks a rupture and a change in terms of autonomy and the right to decide about their lives and their bodies. Nacha’s story is a testimony that allows us to relive the historical and transcendental milestones that marked the history of Mexico and the social movements; with her story we unfold the folds of the memory of the women of 1968.