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Gilberta, a poor female factory worker living in Mexico City, must navigate extremely limited options because of her gender and class. While she finds dignity through labor, education, and revolutionary ideals, she fears that a secret past sexual…

Magdalena Mondragón Aguirre (1913-1989) dramatized women's perspectives in post-revolutionary Mexico. In The Siren Who Carried the Sea (1952), Nereida, a fisherman's wife, contemplates joining the sirens in the ocean after encountering a mystical…

Elena Álvarez’s play, Dying of Hunger (Muerta de hambre), expresses anticlerical sentiments in Mexico's revolutionary period. Here, hypocritical churchgoers step over a dying woman and her small child while on their way to worship. Álvarez’s…