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A uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore womens lives and gendered politics in Mexico. Marjorie Becker focuses on the Mexican women of rural Michoacan who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Pazs signature poem, Sun Stone

"Provides convincing revision of the 'myth of secular redemption' surrounding Lázaro Cárdenas and his program of land distribution to the campesinos. Operating on a 'stripped-down image of land-hungry peasants,' Cárdenas and his supporters underestimated the difficulty of gaining peasant allegiance to the post-revolutionary government and initially failed to understand that they were confronting a cultural as well as an economic problem as they tried to extend revolutionary hegemony"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

It is well known that upon emerging victorious from the Mexican Revolution in 1920, the Constitutionalists confronted a dilemma. Having defeated the popular armies of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, they believed that they had won the right to construct a postrevolutionary state reflecting their interests. Yet the spectors of the popular armies were to haunt them. The new revolutionary elites were forced to determine how to create a state in their own Constitutionalist image and simultaneously how to avoid provoking further popular insurrection.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- State Formation -- I. THEORETICAL PROLEGOMENA -- Popular Culture and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico -- Weapons and Arches in the Mexican Revolutionary Landscape -- II. EMPIRICAL STUDIES -- Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico -- Force and the Search for Consent: The Role of the Jefaturas Politicas of Coahuila in National State Formation -- Rethinking Mexican Revolutionary Mobilization: Yucatan's Seasons of Upheaval, 1909-1915 -- Schools of the Revolution: Enacting and Contesting State Forms in Tlaxcala, 1910-1930 -- Multiple Selective Traditions in Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Struggle: Popular Culture and State Formation in the Ejido of Namiquipa, Chihuahua -- Torching La Purfsima, Dancing at the Altar: The Construction of Revolutionary Hegemony in Michoacan, 1934-1940 -- The "Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional": The Subversion of Native Government in Highland Chiapas, 1936-1968 -- The Seduction of the Innocents: The First Tumultuous Moments of Mass Literacy in Postrevolutionary Mexico -- The Fate of the Vanguard under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to the Construction of the Great Arch -- III. A THEORETICAL REPRISE -- Hegemony and the Language of Contention -- Everyday Forms of State Formation: Some Dissident Remarks on "Hegemony" -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors