Reading the Body Politic

Amy K. Kaminsky is professor of women's studies and a member of the graduate faculty in Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of After Exile (1999) and editor of Water Lilies (1995).

• Translating gender; Gender as category and feminism as strategy in Latin American literary analysis; The presence in absence of exile; Body/politics: Alicia Partnoy's The little school; Gaby Brimmer - A life in three voices; The uses and limits of foreign feminist theory - Elena Garro's "Los Recuerdos del Porvenir"; Sylvia Molloy's lesbian cartographies - body, text, and geography; Cristina Peri Rossi and the question of lesbian presence; Afterword.