This author investigates Mexican women journalists' writing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These women were at the center of the Latin American transnational experience--as female pioneers in the creation of a new mestiza rhetoric that reflected writing from the standpoint of inclusion that was resistant to oppressive ideologies. A mestiza rhetoric contains a discourse that emerges from a cultural background that recognizes its multiple subjectivities, adapts ideas and logics from various cultures, and "creates a symbolic space beyond the mere coming together of two halves." These Mexican women's discourse is situated within a non-Greco-Roman (or quasi-Greco-Roman) historical tradition of Mexico. The writings that they produced had dual rhetorical purposes. First, they wrote in order to contribute to a national identity that was situated in indigenous, Mexican, and European sensibilities, an identity that resisted any one dominant discourse; second, they wrote to counter the repression of women's voices in public. (Contains 30 notes.)