Feministas Unidas Inc.

Feministas Unidas Book Reviews  

Feministas Unidas Inc. publishes book reviews written by our members in our journal Ámbitos Feministas. Contact the Book Reviews principal editor Karina Walker (walkerk3@hartwick.edu) to submit your publication to be reviewed.  

Reseñas Spring 2023 ( As of this issue, all book reviews are published within the journal Ámbitos Feministas).

• Quinn, Rachel A. Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo. U of Illinois P, 2021. 250 pp.
  Débora Maldonado-DeOliveira, Meredith College 
• Sánchez Mora, Elena. Madres, mentoras, mediadoras: Reconciliando espiritualidad y feminismo en la narrativa de escritoras latinoamericanas del Siglo XX. RIL Editores, 2021. 204 pp.
  Deanna H. Mihaly, Virginia State University 
• Theidon, Kimberly. Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin. Duke UP, 2022. 120 pp. Lynn C. Purkey, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Reseñas Fall 2022

• Ketz, Victoria L., Dawn Smith-Sherwood and Debra Faszer-McMahon, eds. A Laboratory of Her Own. Women and Science in Spanish Culture. Vanderbilt UP, 2021. 398 pp.
  Carmen García Armero, Lebanon Valley College 
• Lema-Hincapié, Andrés and Conxita Domènech, eds. Indiscreet Fantasies. Iberian Queer Cinema. Bucknell UP, 2021. 304 pp.
  Jessica Rodrigues Poletti, University of California, Davis 
• Olema García, Daura. Maestra voluntaria. Edited by Bárbara D. Riess. Stockcero, 2021. 133 pp.
  Julia C. Baumgardt, Marian University, Indianapolis 
• Bezhanova, Olga and Raysa E. Amador, eds. Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism. Voices from the Margins. Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.
  Karina Walker, Hartwick College  

Reseñas Spring 2022

• Bernstein, Beth. Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays. Lexington Books, 2021. 174 pp.  
  Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Adelphi University
• Fernández Ulloa, Teresa y Miguel Soler Gallo, eds. Las insolentes: desafío e insumisión femenina en las letras y el arte hispanos. Peter Lang, 2021. 402 pp. 
  Patricia Sagati Suppes, Hartwick College
• Fortún, Gloria. Todas mis palabras son azores salvajes. Dos Bigotes, 2021. 128 pp.
  Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Adelphi University
• Lopez, Jessica Helen. The Blood Poems. U of New Mexico Press, 2021. 101 pp. 
  Shawn Bowers, Queens University of Charlotte
• MacManus, Viviana Beatriz. Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars. U of Illinois Press,  2020. 218 pp.
  Erin Lane, Arizona State University
• Soria, Mar. Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture, 1880- 1975. U of Nebraska Press, 2020. 334 pp.
  Rebecca M. Bender, Kansas State University

Reseñas Fall 2021

• Avilés Diz, Jorge y César Ferreira, eds. Narrar lo invisible. Aproximaciones al mundo literario de Sara Mesa. Albatros, 2020. 233 pp.
  Belén Agustina Sánchez, Arizona State University
• Harms, Patricia. Ladina Social Activism in Guatemala City 1871-1954. University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 409 pp.
  Adela McKay, University of California-Riverside
• Ugalde, Sharon Keefe. Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain. U of Wales P, 2020. 251 pp.
  Kathleen McNerney, West Virginia University, Emerita

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. 
  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).