Though it seemed to be a lie, the women (even the shy one) danced on the pulpit that night: What Mexicans made of the revolutionaries among them, 1934-1940 The most languid, untold pleasure

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Inviting readers to enter the post-revolutionary Mexican world where women, long denied equality before the law, were suddenly courted by church and state, this article focuses on a group of women from the Michoacán village of Ario Santa Monica who invaded the local church and danced. Informed by oral history interviews and explorations of sensibility and embodiment, multiple versions of that dance emerge. They include the dance devised by the women's critics, that of the timid woman reminding us through her dance that history is at times made by the reticent, and that of the dancer hounded from the village. Finally, using a form suited to inner experience, the dance emerges again in the accompanying poem, ‘The Most Languid, Untold Pleasure'.View full textDownload full textKeywordsArio Santa Monica, Soledad Barragán, Lázaro Cárdenas, dance, La Purísima, Michoacán women's leaguesRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2012.648440