Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Mexican woman in historical perspective
  • Ninez: childhood from the 1920s to the 1970s
  • Ya soy senorita: adolescence and courtship
  • La vida de casada: expectations and realities of marriage
  • Con todos estos chamacos: child rearing in the city
  • Se acaba la lucha: widowhood and old age
  • Cumplir o exigir? urban women in the 1990s
  • Postscript 1991