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This article closely reads a single protest by a small group of male high school stu dents in Mexico City, 1934. The protestors interrupted a movie to voice their oppo sition to sex education in the public schools (a new program that had inspired widespread controversy but was never instituted). This protest represented wider tensions over post-Revolutionary modernization and urbanization, particu larly in its effects on children and families. It marked the moment when these tensions ceased to focus on government policies directly and turned toward opposi tion to media representations of social transformations.

This essay kicks off the special historical issue of Transformative Works and Cultures by offering an overview of the ways in which fan communities have been studied by academic historians, and how fan studies has written the history of fan communities. The essay discusses historical work done by amateur fan historians throughout the 20th century; what academic historians can offer fan communities; why academic historians could benefit from studying fandoms as part of the history of popular culture; and what fan studies as a discipline might gain from a broader historical analysis of fandoms.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: When Gender Can't Be Seen amid the Symbols: Women and the Mexican Revolution -- Introduction: Pancho Villa, the Daughters of Mary, and the Modern Woman: Gender in the Long Mexican Revolution -- Part One: Embodying Revolutionary Culture -- Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Amelio Robles's (Transgender) Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution -- The War on Las Pelonas : Modern Women and Their Enemies, Mexico City, 1924 -- Femininity, Indigenismo, and Nation: Film Representation by Emilio ''El Indio'' Fernández -- Part Two: Reshaping the Domestic Sphere -- ''If Love Enslaves . . . Love Be Damned!'': Divorce and Revolutionary State Formation in Yucatán -- Gender, Class, and Anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational School, Revolutionary Mexico City -- Breaking and Making Families: Adoption and Public Welfare, Mexico City, 1938-1942 -- Part Three: The Gendered Realm of Labor Organizing -- The Struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920-1940 -- Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class Women's Culture in Post-Revolutionary Veracruz -- Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry in Postrevolutionary Puebla -- Part Four: Women and Revolutionary Politics -- Gendering the Faith and Altering the Nation: Mexican Catholic Women's Activism, 1917-1940 -- The Center Cannot Hold: Women on Mexico's Popular Front -- Epilogue: Rural Women's Grassroots Activism, 1980-2000: Reframing the Nation from Below -- Final Reflections: Gender, Chaos, and Authority in Revolutionary Times -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index