Women and the Mexican world: the dilemma: eternal goddesses or mortal women? -- Women in new Spain: the end of one world and the shaping of another -- Mexican women in the nineteenth century: idols of bronze or inspiration of the home? -- Peace in Porfirian times: in the maelstrom of "progress" -- From revolution to stability -- From "development" to crisis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-134) and index.