Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America [Paperback]

The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of womens participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.

Emilie Bergmannis a specialist in Spanish Golden Age literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Berkeley.Janet Greenbergis an executive associate of the American Council of Learned Societies in New York.Gwen Kirkpatrickteaches Latin American literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Berkeley.Francine Masielloteaches Latin American and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley.Francesca Millerteaches inter-American relations and women's history at the University of California at Davis.Marta Morello-Froschteaches Latin American literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.Kathleen Newmanteaches Latin American film and mass communications theory at the University of Iowa.Mary Louise Prattteaches comparative literature and literary theory at Stanford University. 

This collection, because of its exceptional theoretical coherence and sophistication, is qualitatively superior to the most frequently consulted anthologies on Latin American womens history and literature . . . [and] represents a new, more theoretically rigorous stage in the feminist debate on Latin American women.Elizabeth Garrels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology