The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: March 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780813018324
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Literary Criticism; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin America; Caribbean & Latin American; History; 20th century; Latin American fiction; Women and literature; Women in literature
Description: "Latin American fiction achieved a turning point in its representation of sexual women sometime in the 1960s. Diane E. Marting offers a detailed analysis of this development.".

"Her central idea is that in Latin American narrative women's desires were portrayed as dangerous throughout the twentieth century, despite the heroic character of the "newly sexed woman" of the sixties. She argues that women's sexuality in fiction was transformed because it symbolized the many other changes occurring in women's lives regarding their families, workplaces, societies, and nations. Female sexual desire offered an ever present threat to male privilege."--BOOK JACKET.