Index

Editorial

IX-XIII

Frida Kahlo: The stages of her recognition

3-15

Rape: A weapon of war

16-33

Sexist violence: from symbolic to radical violence

34-48

I have never stopped being afraid: sexual violence in the lives of mexican immigrant women

49-77

Writing on the bodies of women murdered in Ciudad Juárez: territory, sovereignty, and crimes of the second state

78-102

Trafficking and sexual exploitation in Argentina

103-114

The recount: explorations of Kiki Smith’s Work

117-120

Artwork

121-137

Pornography and the Savonarolas of censorship

139-148

Poems

151-153

Lydia Cacho’s response to the proposal of political asylum

157-159

Gender and feminism in the cinematic work of Maricarmen de Lara

163-176

A proper name, a common place: subjectivity, citizenship, and sexuality in Mexico — The Gay Amazonas Club

179-196

When there are no words to say it, there is a body to express it

199-210

The persistence of memory: feminism and the state in 1990s Peru

213-246

The novel of the millennium: Diamela Eltit’s Jamás el fuego nunca, allegory of the dying body of Latin America’s revolutionary utopia

249-254

Writing and identity

257-263

Contemporary african narrative

267-268

You in the United States

269-277

Effi Briest, an unbearable woman

281-285

The vision of the victors: a spectacle of mythical realism

319-327

Mexican women

328-331

“Bad births” in Bolivia: at the extremes of the political sphere

335-337

Statement by diverse eomen of Ecuador: for the right to a safe abortion

338-342

About Saudades by Sandra Lorenzano

289-292

She is not a voice that is silenced

293-297

Panopticons and labyrinths

298-303

Equality policies

304-312

Literature and life

313-316

Contributors

354-352