Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: When Gender Can’t Be Seen amid the Symbols: Women and the Mexican Revolution 1
5. Introduction: Pancho Villa, the Daughters of Mary, and the Modern Woman: Gender in the Long Mexican Revolution 21
6. Part One: Embodying Revolutionary Culture
7. Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Amelio Robles’s (Transgender) Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution 35
8. The War on Las Pelonas : Modern Women and Their Enemies, Mexico City, 1924 57
9. Femininity, Indigenismo, and Nation: Film Representation by Emilio ‘‘El Indio’’ Fernández 81
10. Part Two: Reshaping the Domestic Sphere
11. ‘‘If Love Enslaves . . . Love Be Damned!’’: Divorce and Revolutionary State Formation in Yucatán 99
12. Gender, Class, and Anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational School, Revolutionary Mexico City 112
13. Breaking and Making Families: Adoption and Public Welfare, Mexico City, 1938–1942 127
14. Part Three: The Gendered Realm of Labor Organizing
15. The Struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920–1940 147
16. Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class Women’s Culture in Post-Revolutionary Veracruz 162
17. Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry in Postrevolutionary Puebla 181
18. Part Four: Women and Revolutionary Politics
19. Gendering the Faith and Altering the Nation: Mexican Catholic Women’s Activism, 1917–1940 199
20. The Center Cannot Hold: Women on Mexico’s Popular Front 223
21. Epilogue: Rural Women’s Grassroots Activism, 1980–2000: Reframing the Nation from Below 241
22. Final Reflections: Gender, Chaos, and Authority in Revolutionary Times 261
23. Bibliography 277
24. Contributors 303
25. Index 307