ROBERT MCKEE IRWIN is Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Spanish and Portuguese department at Tulane University and author of the forthcoming Mexican Masculinities. He also co-edited Hispanisms and Homosexualities (Duke 98) with Sylvia Molloy. - EDWARD J. MCCAUGHAN is Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-chair of Latin American Studies at Loyola University of New Orleans and author of books on social change in Latin America like Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Mexico and Cuba (Westview 97). - MICHELLE NASSER was co-organizer of the Centenary of the Famous 41 symposium and curated the accompanying exhibition of JosGuadalup Podsada broadsides and newspaper stories on 'the Famous 41'.

'The Centenary of the Famous 41 is a rich contribution to the growing bibliography on the relationship between the state and sexuality. Taking an important case from 1901 in which police interrupted a clandestine party of drag queens in Mexico City, the editors first supply significant archival documentation taken from newspapers, graphic art, and lost fiction of the time and then assemble an impressive collection of scholarly essays to address affirmations of sexual difference and homophobic response in early twentieth century Mexico. Focusing on the politics of visibility and the power of normative law, on the culture of the closet and battles to regulate otherness, the authors offer original and illuminating insights that considerably expand the range of reflection belonging to Latin American cultural studies.' - Francine Masiello, UC Berkeley, author of The Art of Transition

• Introduction; R.Mckee Irwin, E.McCaughan, M.Nasser PART I: THE FAMOUS 41 The 41 and the Great Raid; C.Monsiváis , translated by A.Walker ) The Centenary of the Famous 41; R.Mckee Irwin The Scandal of the 41: Mexican Newspaper Coverage, November 1901, Spanish Version English Version, (translated by R.McKee Irwin & M.Nasser ) The 41: A Socio-Critical Novel (1906): Eduardo Castrejón's Lost Novel, Excerpts, Spanish Version English Version, (translated by R.McKee Irwin and M.Nasser ) PART II: SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL CONTROL IN MEXICO, 1901 Homophobia and the Construction of Working-Class Masculinities: Mexico City, 1890-1910; R.Buffington The Lagartijo at the High Life: Notes on Masculine Consumption, Race, Nation and Homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico; V.M.González Interpretations of Sexuality in Mexico City Prisons: A Critical Version of Roumagnac; P.Piccato Beyond Medicalization: Asylum Doctors and Inmates Produce Sexual Knowledge at the General Insane Asylum La Castañeda in Late Porfirian Mexico; C.Rivera Garza Sentimental Excess and Gender Disruption: The Case of Amado Nervo, S.Molloy