Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.
Contents:
The faces of rebellion: from revolutionaries to Veterans in nationalist Mexico / Martha Eva Rocha -- Educating the mothers of the nation: the project of revolutionary education in Yucatán / Stephanie J. Smith -- Challenging legal and gender constraints in Mexico: Sofía Villa de Buentello's criticism of family legislation, 1917-1927 / Carmen Ramos Escandón -- The meaning of the women's vote in Mexico, 1917-1953 / Sarah A. Buck -- Of the sublime mission of mothers of families: the union of Mexican Catholic ladies in Revolutionary Mexico / Patience A. Schell -- Theater of operations: reform politics and the battle for prostitutes' redemption at revolutionary Mexico City's syphilis hospital / Katherine Elaine Bliss -- "The proletarian women will make the social revolution": female participation in the Veracruz rent strike, 1922-1927 / Andrew Grant Wood -- Por la liberatión de la mujer: women and the anti-alcohol campaign / Stephanie Mitchell -- Improving mothers: poverty, the family, and "modern" social assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950 / Nichole Sanders.
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