Introduction. The feminization of Mexican public life, and a note on methodology
1. Participation, representation, and democracy : how the personal becomes the political for women in contemporary Mexico
2. The social, economic, and political identity of Mexican women : negotiating private and public spaces
3. The women's movement in Mexico : from suffrage to the institutionalization of gender
4. Women in public office : building alliances, getting things done
5. Women and the electoral process : shifting gears in the Mexican political machine
6. Reframing Mexican democracy : what does the future hold for women?