Marjorie Becker

About The Author

Marjorie Becker is a professor of history and English at the University of Southern California. She is also the author of Body Bach; Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution; Piano Glass / Glass Piano; and The Macon Sex School: Songs of Tenderness and Resistance.

Books by Marjorie Becker

Dancing on the Sun Stone

Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

By Marjorie Becker
Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an ...
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