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"Innovative study of the cultural legacy of the Mexican Revolution, using the story of rural schools. Focuses on Puebla and Sonora and the attempt by the central government to implement socialist education and to advance its nationalist agenda. Stresses the importance of negotiation among national and local leaders, teachers and peasants"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

The aesthetics of nation building -- The noche Mexicana and the exhibition of popular arts : two ways of exalting Indianness / Rick A. López -- The sickle, the serpent, and the soil : history, revolution, nationhood, and modernity in the murals of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Desmond Rochfort -- Painting in the shadow of the big three: Frida Kahlo / Sarah M. Lowe -- María Izquierdo / Adriana Zavala -- The Mexican experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood / James Oles -- Mestizaje and musical nationalism in Mexico / Marco Velázquez and Mary Kay Vaughan -- Revolution in the city streets : changing nomenclature, changing form, and the revision of public memory / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen -- Utopian projects of the state -- Saints, sinners, and state formation : local religion and cultural revolution in Mexico / Adrian A. Bantjes -- Nationalizing the countryside : schools and rural communities in the 1930s / Mary Kay Vaughan -- The nation, education, and the "Indian Problem" in Mexico, 1920-1940 / Stephen E. Lewis -- For the health of the nation : gender and the cultural politics of social hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss -- Mass communications and nation building -- Remapping identities : road construction and nation building in postrevolutionary Mexico / Wendy Waters -- National imaginings on the air : radio in Mexico, 1920-1950 / Joy Elizabeth Hayes -- Screening the nation / Joanne Hershfield -- Social constructions of nation -- An idea of Mexico : Catholics in the Revolution / Jean Meyer -- Guadalajaran women and the construction of national identity / María Teresa Fernández Aceves -- "We are all Mexicans here": workers, patriotism, and union struggles in Monterrey / Michael Snodgrass -- Final reflections : what was Mexico's cultural revolution? / Claudio Lomnitz.

"The exciting and heartbreaking biography of a woman willing to fight for liberation during a tumultuous time in Mexican history"--

When gender can't be seen amid the symbols : women and the Mexican Revolution / Carlos Monsiváis -- Pancho Villa, the Daughters of Mary, and the modern woman : gender in the long Mexican Revolution / Mary Kay Vaughan -- Unconcealable realities of desire : Amelio Robles's (transgender) masculinity in the Mexican Revolution / Gabriela Cano -- The war on Las Pelonas : modern women and their enemies, Mexico City, 1924 / Anne Rubenstein -- Femininity, indigenismo, and nation : film representation by Emilio "El Indio" Fernández / Julia Tuñón -- "If love enslaves . . . love be damned!" Divorce and revolutionary state formation in Yucatán / Stephanie Smith -- Gender, class, and anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational School, revolutionary Mexico City / Patience A. Schell -- Breaking and making families : adoption and public welfare, Mexico City, 1938-1942 / Ann S. Blum -- The struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920-1940 / María Teresa Fernández-Aceves -- Gender, work, trade unionism, and working-class women's culture in post-revolutionary Veracruz / Heather Fowler-Salamini -- Working-class masculinity and the rationalized sex : gender and industrial modernization in the textile industry in postrevolutionary Puebla / Susan M. Gauss -- Gendering the faith and altering the nation : Mexican Catholic women's activism, 1917-1940 / Kristina A. Boylan -- The center cannot hold : women on Mexico's popular front / Jocelyn Olcott -- Epilogue : Rural women's grassroots activism, 1980-2000 : reframing the nation from below / Lynn Stephen -- Final reflections : gender, chaos, and authority in revolutionary times / Temma Kaplan.