"Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore womens 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 illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Pazs signature poem, Sun Stone--allowing a new gendered history to emerge. Through this dialogue, the women reveal intimate and intellectual complexities of Mexican womens gendered voices, their histories, and their intimate and public lives. Dancing on the Sun Stone further demonstrates the ways these women, in dialogue with Paz, transformed history itself. Beckers multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial Michoacán females, experiences that culminate in their complex revolutionary dance, which itself emerges as a transformative revolutionary language. The book also explores Mexican artists Rosario Castellanos and Alfonson Cuarón, each of whom provides alternative approaches to Mexicos gendered temporality and each of whom speaks to the Mexico the Michoacán dancers imagined and embodied. Becker illustrates how the work of both the artists and the dancers seeks a world where women experience equality, safety, and recognition" --.