Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico

Lionel Sosa is an independent marketing consultant and a nationally known portrait artist. He has served on the teams of eight national presidential campaigns, on the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, and on the boards of Sesame Workshop, PBS, and the Briscoe Western Art Museum, and other organizations. He is the author or coauthor of five books, including El Vaquero Real: The Original American Cowboy. Sosa and his wife, Kathy Sosa, recently produced the documentary Children of the Revolución: How the Mexican Revolution Changed Americäs Destiny, a twenty-part series chronicling the history of the Texas/Mexico borderland.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: Reflections on Revolutionary Women -- Dolores Huerta
Preface - Kathy Sosa
Introduction: Setting the Scene of Revolutionary Women in Texas and Mexico
- Jennifer Speed

Section I: The Era of the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Las Soldaderas - Elena Poniatowska
Juana Belèn Gutièrrez de Mendoza - Cristina D. Ramírez
Valentinas, no! Valientas, si! Cristina Sosa and Leonila Ortiz Sosa [AM1] - Lionel Sosa
The Perservationists: Adina DeZavala, Rena Maverick Green, Emily Edwards - Lewis F. Fisher
Concepcion Acevedo de la Llata - Jennifer Speed

Section II: Las Antepasadas : Women Revolutionaries prior to the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz - Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Virgin of Guadalupe - Virgilio P. Elizondo
Jane McManus Cazneau - Linda Hudson
Teresa Urrea - Sandra Cisneros
Malinalli La Malinche - Laura Esquivel

Section III: The Legacy : Women Revolutionaries of the Post-Revolution Era
Alice Dickerson Montemayor - Cynthia Orozoco
Emma Tenayuca - Carmen Tafolla
Frida Kahlo - Amalia Mesa-Bains
Genoveva Morales -Elaine Ayala
Nahui Olin - Teresa Van Hoy
Gloria Anzaldúa - Ellen Riojas Clark
Chavela Vargas - Sandra Cisneros
Women of Guerrero - Marta Lamas

Epilogue: title TK - Norma Cantú