INTRODUCTION: Iconic Mexican Women at the Threshold of a New Century -- CHAPTER I. Forget Me Not: Malinche's Struggles in Twenty-First Century Mexico -- CHAPTER II. Impossible Nun: Sor Juana and the Traps of Representation -- CHAPTER III. Leona Vicario: The Sweet Mother of the Nation -- CHAPTER IV. Si Adelita se fuera con otro? Soldaderas of an Unfinished Revolution -- EPILOGUE. Espero alegre la salida: Frida Kahlo and the Never-Ending Torments of a Female Icon.