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Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. By Tabea Alexa Linhard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8262-1611-0. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. x, 282. $39.95.
In many respects this is an ambitious book: in Fearless Women Linhard brings together different genres and crosses continents as she looks at women's participation in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War, and the representation of their contribution to these events in literature and (briefly) cinema. Linhard makes a convincing case for looking at the Mexican Revolution and Spanish Civil War together, and she brings the two events together almost seamlessly in her discussion of literary, cultural and gender theory in the first section of her book. She also includes some wonderful illustrations, although one...