Feministas Unidas Inc.

Feministas Unidas Book Reviews  

Feministas Unidas Inc. publishes book reviews written by our members in the Spring and Fall FemUn Newsletter. Contact the Book Reviews editor Carmen Urioste (carmen.urioste@asu.edu) to submit your publication to be reviewed.

Reseñas Spring 2021

• García, Patricia and Teresa López-Pellisa, eds. Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America: A Critical Anthology. U of Wales P, 2019. 158 pp. P, 2019. 200 pp. 
  Dawn Slack Kutztown, University of Pennsylvania
• Harmer, Tanya. Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 384 pp. 
  Débora Maldonado-De Oliveira, Meredith College
• Hurtado, Aída. Intersectional Chicana Feminisms. Sitios y Lenguas. U of Arizona P, 2020. 217 pp.
  Ellen Mayock, Washington and Lee University
• Hurtado Aída y Norma E. Cantú, eds. meXicana Fashions. Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction. University of Texas Press, 2020. 336 pp.
  Inés Corujo Martín, Bryn Mawr College
• Murray, N. Michelle, and Akiko Tscuchiya, eds. Unsettling Colonialism. Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World. Suny Press, 2019. 291 pp.
  Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Adelphi University
• Oliart Delgado de Torres, Carmen. María Goyri. Una mujer asombrosa. Sabina, 2020. 164 pp.
  Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Adelphi University
• Van Vleet, Krista E. Hierarchies of Care: Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru. U of Illinois P, 2019. 212 pp.
  Silvia Bermúdez, University of California-Santa Barbara

Reseñas Fall 2020

• Bost, Suzanne. Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism. U of Illinois P, 2019. 200 pp.
  Rosita Scerbo, Allegheny College
• Drago, Margarita. Sor María de Jesús Tomelín (1579-1637), concepcionista poblana: La construcción fallida de una santa. Pliegos, 2018. 298 pp.
  Kathleen McNerney, Professor Emerita West Virginia University
• Godón, Nuria. La pasión esclava: Alianzas masoquistas en La Regenta. Purdue University Press, 2017. 224 pp.
  Aurélie Vialette, Stony Brook University
• Rødtjer, Rocío. Women and Nationhood in Restoration Spain 1874-1931. The State as Family. Legenda, 2019. 172 pp.
  Pilar Martínez-Quiroga, University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign
•  Sellers-García, Sylvia. The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts. Yale UP, 2020, pp. 281.
  Olga Bezhanova, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
  

Reseñas Spring 2020

• Aramburu, Diana. Resisting Invisibility: Detecting the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction. U of Toronto P, 2019. 282 pp.
  David William Foster, Arizona State University 
• Bautista Botello, Ester. Carmen Martín Gaite. Poetics, Visual Elements and Space. University of Wales Press, 2019. 221 pp.
  Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Adelphi University
• Caballero, Cecilia, et al, eds. The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: porque sin madres no hay revolución. Foreword by Ana Castillo. The Feminist Wire Books Series: Connecting Feminisms, Race, and Social Justice. U of Arizona P, 2019. 336 pp.
  Débora Maldonado-DeOliveira, Meredith College 
• Versteeg, Margot. Propuestas para (re)construir una nación. El teatro de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Purdue University Press, 2019. 312 pp.
  Ana Hontanilla, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Reseñas Fall 2019

• Báez, Jillian M. In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship. University of Illinois Press, 2018. 184 pp.
  Diana Leon-Boys, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Cantú, Norma Elia. Cabañuelas. University of New Mexico Press, 2019. 313 pp.
  Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Seattle University
• Díaz Marcos, Ana María, ed. Escenarios de crisis: Dramaturgas españolas en el nuevo milenio. Benilde, 2018. 531 pp.
  Rossana Fialdini Zambrano, University of South Carolina
• Luque, Aurora. Haikus de Narila Portvaria. Ed. bilingüe de Elsy Cardona. Luces de Gálibo, 2017. 234 pp.
  Margarita Vargas, University at Buffalo
• Triplette, Stacy. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain. From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 214 pp.
  Enriqueta Zafra, Ryerson University
• Zecchi, Barbara, coord. Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet: Cine, compromiso y feminismo. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2017. 495 pp.
  Maria Van Liew, West Chester University

Reseñas Spring 2019

• Cuevas, T. Jackie. Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique. Rutgers University Press, 2018. 171 pp.
  Lee Bebout, Arizona State University
• Drier, Katherine S. Cinco meses en la Argentina desde el punto de vista de una mujer (1918 a 1919). Ed. María Gabriela Mizraje; trad. Cynthia M. Tompkins. Cuarto Propio, 2016. 283 pp.
  María Claudia André, Hope College
• Estrada, Oswaldo. Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation. State University of New York Press, 2018. xv, 244 pp.
  David William Foster, Arizona State University
• Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación. Disabled Bodies in early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints. Liverpool University Press, 2017. 201 pp.
  Gloaria Bodtorf Clark, Penn State Harrisburg
• Miseres, Vanesa. Mujeres en tránsito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910). University of North Carolina/Department of Romance Studies, 2017. 240 pp.
  Norma Alloatti, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
• Selimović, Inela. Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 263 pp.
  Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University

Inquiries about the Book Reviews should be addressed to Carmen Urioste (carmen.urioste@asu.edu).