Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction - Tapa blanda

Castillo, Debra A.

 
9780816631131: Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction
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ISBN 10: 0816631131 ISBN 13: 9780816631131
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Sinopsis

Addresses the topic of prostitution and “easy women” in Mexican literature.

The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination.

Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the “easy woman” in their works. In each example the transgressive woman-marked by an active sexuality-serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women’s professional and personal lives. As opposed to a traditional view of these women as symbols of evil or metaphors of contagion, Castillo gives voice and agency to the silenced figure of the “easy woman,” unsettling conventional notions and opening up a freer space within which gender and sexuality can be rethought.

Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.

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Debra A. Castillo is professor of romance studies and comparative literature at Cornell University.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816631131
ISBN 13 
9780816631131
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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ISBN 10:  0816631123 ISBN 13:  9780816631124
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 1998
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