Plotting Women : Gender & Representation in Mexico
Hardcover
1989 · New York
by Franco, Jean
New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. Hardcover. VG-/VG- but art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks.. Red cloth/boards; silver lettering. Red/black striped dj with bw image and red lettering. Mylar cover. xxiv, 235 pp. with bw frontis and occasional other bw illus. Where is the common ground for feminist theory and Latin American culture? Jean Franco explores Mexican women's struggle for interpretive power in relation to the Catholic religion, the nation, and post-modern society; and examines the writings of women who wrote under the shadow of recognized male writers, as well as the works of more marginal figures. In this original and skillfully written book Franco demonstrates the many feminisms that emerge in apparently rigid and adverse situations, and provides the foundation for a more comprehensive, less ethnocentric feminst theory. - from the dj. (Inventory #: 159509)