Reading the body politic : feminist criticism and Latin American women writers

Proposes A Latin American Feminist Criticism That Is Both Regionally Specific And In Current Dialogue With North American And European Feminist Practices. Translating Gender -- Gender As Category And Feminism As Strategy In Latin American Literary Analysis -- The Presence In Absence Of Exile -- Body/politics : Alicia Partnoy's The Little School -- Gaby Brimmer : A Life In Three Voices -- The Uses And Limits Of Foreign Feminist Theory : Elena Garro's Los Recuerdos Del Porvenir -- Sylvia Molloy's Lesbian Cartographies : Body, Text, And Geography -- Cristina Peri Rossi And The Question Of Lesbian Presence. Amy K. Kaminsky. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 137-156) And Index. Covers the practice of feminist criticism in the context of Latin American literature, bringing together Latin American materialist and feminist criticism. The female body is at the centre of this analysis and is tied to a political movement dedicated to the eradication of gender oppression.