Dancing on the Sun Stone - Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

A uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women-s 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 Paz-s signature poem, `Sun Stone-.