Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “Truer Portraits”: Feminist Spectators in Turn-of-the-Century Latin America
Chapter 1. “Dear Girls, Shout Along with Me”: Schools, Suffrage, and Political Agency
Chapter 2. “Sweeping Away Injustice”: Redefining Women’s Honor in the Context of Social Revolution, 1912–1919
Chapter 3. “She Made All the Women Cry”: Camila Quiroga and Women Playgoers in Argentina, 1915–1918
Chapter 4. “Picture Yourself Married, Unhappily Married”: Melodrama and Social Change in Argentina, 1919–1927
Chapter 5. “The Ideal Mexican Mother”: Supermadres and Women’s Citizenship in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1923–1950
Chapter 6. “Daddy, I’m Getting a Divorce”: Gender, Comedy, and Liberated Women in Argentina, 1938 and 1945
Appendix A. Excerpt from Almafuerte by Salvadora Medina Onrubia (1914)
Appendix B. Excerpt from Cosas de la vida: Comedia en tres actos (The facts of life: Comedy in three acts) by María Luisa Ocampo (1923)
Appendix C. Yo me divorcio, Papá: Pieza en un acto (Daddy, I’m getting a divorce: A one-act play) by Malena Sándor (1937)
Appendix D. El mundo perdido (The lost world) by Magdalena Mondragón (1952)
Notes
Chapter 7. “We Must Invent Ourselves”: Transformative Mythmakers and the Lasting Legacy of Early Twentieth-Century Women Playwrights
Bibliography
Index