Oculto a los ojos mortales

Compendio de estudios que se centran en torno al concepto de la transgresión en la cultura cubana contemporánea desde múltiples ángulos: teatro, novela, filosofía, medios de comunicación y lengua.

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Lluís Llongueras, gran admirador y conocedor de la mujer, ha plasmado un estudio detallado y riguroso, un verdadero homenaje a la mujer en torno al punto más sagrado de su cuerpo. En los últimos ciento cincuenta años la mujer, gracias a su tenacidad y valor, ha ido conquistando una serie de derechos que le habían sido negados desde el principio de los tiempos. No obstante, aún es una gran incomprendida, catalogada en base a prejuicios y convencionalismos anquilosados. El sexo femenino viene a reparar esta anomalía con un valiente y exhaustivo retrato biológico, psicológico y...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...