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La casa de Bernarda Alba / The House of Bernarda Alba (Joyas Del Teatro)

La casa de Bernarda Alba / The House of Bernarda Alba (Joyas Del Teatro)

by Garcia Lorca, Federico

La casa de Bernarda Alba"" constituye un exponente mas de la capacidad de Federico Garcia Lorca para aunar la tradicion y la vanguardia por medio de un teatro simbolico de indole muy personal que le situa entre los valores mas destacados del canon internacional. El autor granadino continua en el camino de la experimentacion con temas, personajes y generos de la tradicion teatral, a los que presenta desde... (more)

The Other Mirror: Women's Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995 (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

The Other Mirror: Women's Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995 (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, have become international best sellers. The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed... (more)

Soldaderas. (English)

by Elena Poniatowska

The photographs of Las Soldaderas and Elena Poniatowska's remarkable commentary rescue the women of the Mexican Revolution from the dust and oblivion of history. These are the Adelitas and Valentinas celebrated in famous corridos mexicanos, but whose destiny was much more profound and tragic than the idealistic words of ballads. The photographs remind Poniatowska of the trail of women warriors that begins with... (more)

by Carmen Boullosa

In Duerme, the main character, Claire, is a European woman traveling through the New World. She dresses and lives like a man, regardless of the risks she faces in these recently discovered lands. While Spaniards try to impose their culture and religion to the Indians, Claire divests herself of her personalities when the situation requires it, sometimes to her detriment. Carmen Boullosa recreates the... (more)

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

Originally published in 1929, A Room of One's Own eloquently states Woolf's conviction that in order to create works of genius, women must be freed from financial obligations and social restrictions.

Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende, Eva Allende

Niece of the assassinated Chilean president Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende has written a luminous literary novel that traces the life of an orphan from her impoverished beginnings to her rise to fame and fortune. HC: Knopf.

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society

Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society

by Inga Muscio

It's just called history, asserts Inga Muscio in her newest book. In fact, the controversial author continues, the so-called history we learn in school is no more than a brand, developed by white men who, often unjustly, won the right to spin their stories as hard facts. With Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil, it's Muscio's turn and she's taking it in order to hip the masses to the truth about the American... (more)

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated Second Edition

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated Second Edition

by Inga Muscio

An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and... (more)

Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

One the eve of WWI, three American male explorers stumble onto an all-female society somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth. Unable to believe their eyes, they promptly set out to find some men, convinced that since this is a civilized country--there must be men. So begins this sparkling utopian novel, a romp through a whole world "masculine" and "feminine," as on target today as when it was written 65... (more)

La Mujer Habitada

by Gioconda Belli

Three Guineas (Annotated)

by Mark Hussey, Virginia Woolf

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties... (more)

Si Me Permiten Hablar... Domitila

by Moema Viezzer

Text: Spanish

Rosario Castellanos.Rito de iniciación

by Rosario Castellanos

Years after the author's death, the manuscrip of this novel was discovered by her friends, revealing a different Rosario Castellanos, more ironic, more sarcastic. Rito de Iniciacin reflects several births as a writer, as a woman, as an independent person, as an erotic being... Each of these births is painful, dramatic, and violent and is narrated in a light, witty, and humorous way.

Prospero's Daughter: The Prose of Rosario Castellanos (Texas Pan American Series)

Prospero's Daughter: The Prose of Rosario Castellanos (Texas Pan American Series)

by Joanna O'Connell

A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her... (more)

Mujer que sabe Latin

by Rosario Castellanos

Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) hace una muy personal incursion en Mujer que sabe latin... (1973) en el polemico y actual tema del feminismo. En este campo, Castellanos es una rival temible, pues combate con las armas del ingenio, de la ironia y resplandeciendo de sentido.

Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction

by E. A. Grosz

Grosz gives a critical overview of Lacan's work from a feminist perspective. Discussing previous attempts to give a feminist reading of his work, she argues for women's autonomy based on an indifference to the Lacanian phallus.

OrlandoVirginia Woolf

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

Anahita's Woven Riddle

by Meghan Nuttall Sayres

A richly detailed and enchanting novel, set in 20th-century Persia Anahita, a nomad, learns that her father has promised her hand in marriage to a man she dislikes. Determined to have a say in her own fate, Anahita convinces her father to let her hold a contest, in which potential suitors must correctly answer the riddle she has woven into her wedding carpet. A diplomat, a schoolteacher, a shepherd, and a prince... (more)

A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and DramaRosario; Ahern, Maureen Castellanos

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La casa de Bernarda Alba / The House of Bernarda Alba (Joyas Del Teatro)

by Garcia Lorca, Federico

The Other Mirror: Women's Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995 (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

Soldaderas. (English)

by Elena Poniatowska

by Carmen Boullosa

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende, Eva Allende

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society

by Inga Muscio

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated Second Edition

by Inga Muscio

Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

La Mujer Habitada

by Gioconda Belli

Three Guineas (Annotated)

by Mark Hussey, Virginia Woolf

Si Me Permiten Hablar... Domitila

by Moema Viezzer

Rosario Castellanos.Rito de iniciación

by Rosario Castellanos

Prospero's Daughter: The Prose of Rosario Castellanos (Texas Pan American Series)

by Joanna O'Connell

Mujer que sabe Latin

by Rosario Castellanos

Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction

by E. A. Grosz

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

Anahita's Woven Riddle

by Meghan Nuttall Sayres

A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama

by Rosario; Ahern, Maureen Castellanos