Introduction: sexuality and social control in Mexico, 1901 / Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan, and Michelle Rocío Nasser -- The Famous 41: newspaper scandal of 1901 / translated by Robert McKee Irwin and Michelle Rocío Nasser -- Los 41: el escándalo periodístico de 1901 (in Spanish) -- The 41: a novel of social criticism [1906] (excerpts) / Eduardo Castrejón ; translated by Robert McKee Irwin and Michelle Rocío Nasser -- Los cuarenta y uno: novela crítico-social (selecciones) / Eduardo Castrejón (in Spanish) -- The 41 and the Gran Redada / Carlos Monsiváis ; translated by Aaron Walker --The centenary of the Famous 41 / Robert McKee Irwin -- Homophobia and the Mexican working class, 1900-1910 / Robert Buffington -- The Lagartijo at The High Life: masculine consumption, race, nation, and homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico / Victor M. Macías-González -- Interpretations of sexuality in Mexico City prisons: a critical view of Roumagnac / Pablo Piccato -- Beyond medicalization: asylum doctors and inmates produce sexual knowledge at the General Insane Asylum La Castañeda in late Porfirian Mexico / Cristina Rivera-Garza -- Sentimental excess and gender disruption: the case of Amado Nervo / Sylvia Molloy