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Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.

Una Isabel Allende más Allende que nunca. Un regalo para todos sus lectores, una lección de vida y coraje. Cada año vivido y cada arruga cuentan mi historia. Isabel Allende bucea en su memoria y nos ofrece un emocionante libro sobre su relación con el feminismo y el hecho de ser mujer, al tiempo que reivindica que la vida adulta hay que vivirla, sentirla y gozarla con plena intensidad. En Mujeres del alma mía la gran autora chilena nos invita a acompañarla en este viaje personal y emocional donde repasa su vinculación con el feminismo desde la infancia hasta hoy. Recuerda a algunas...

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

Aus dem Inhalt: M. Venturi, L'amiciziaH. Walter, Ovid, Am. I, 14, 3G. Padoan, Con Bodo, tra miti e mitografi. Tieste e Tereo in BoccaccioR. Stillers. Die Verwandlung der Bilder in Worte. Erzahlte Poetik in Boccaccios Amorosa visioneG. Pinkernell, La Ballade de Fortune de Francois Villon. L'histoire ancienne au service d'un ex-criminel en mal de reintegrationG. Ponte, Metamorfosi BoiardescheG. Huber-Rebenich, Kontinuitat und Wandel in der fruhen italienischen Ovid-Illustration. Die Tradition der Holzschnitte zu Giovanni dei Bonsignoris Ovidio metamorphoseos vulgareE. Fumagalli, Osservazioni...