Gendering Transnational State Violence: Intertwined Histories of Intrigue and Injustice along the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1913.

This article details the experiences of Leonor Díaz de Cortez and Asención Paz de Morantes during their arrests and imprisonments with the backdrop of gender-based injustice at the United States-Mexico borderlands in the early twentieth century. The article explores each woman as a working-class mother and her claim of innocence in the revolutionary crimes in which she was charged. Topics also include the role of violence in the borderlands, Mexican cultural identity, and the Mexican Revolution.