Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines...

Este libro propone que La Tierra Baldía, de T.S. Eliot, es la dolorosa expresión del colapso de una época y la síntesis del derrumbe de un ideal de mujer; que su autor, apoyándose en la inversión de las leyendas del Grial, logró fusionar con su propia tragedia personal. El poema sería la evidencia de la esterilidad y el fracaso del amor entre un hombre y una mujer, configurada poéticamente teniendo a la base una riquísima simbología sobre...

There are nine chapters in the book, seven written in Spanish, one in English, one translated from Spanish. All of them previously published in very prestigious literary Review-Journnals of Latin America and Spain. This compilation represents the work of a scholar dedicated to the inquiry of feminism in the Modern and Contemporary Spanish poetry written by women and men in Modernism and Postmodernism. It is a scholarly book that traces how very recurrent...

You are in the wrong life, with the wrong man. This is a trap. Escape. You are in the right life, with the right man. This is a trap. Escape. In the surreal, macabre performances of femininity that haunt Suzanne Burns' third collection, nobody emerges innocent or unscathed. Tasha lives in a community that is mysteriously obsessed with a high-stakes bake-off. Junie constantly tries to impress a cabal of unsettlingly toxic ladies who don't respect her-until...

Los hombres comenzaron a morir. Hace decenios, un súbito evento desencadenó una catástrofe demográfica en la que pereció la mitad de la población mundial: desaparecieron todas las personas con cromosoma Y. A consecuencia de aquello, las supervivientes y sus descendientes han heredado la Tierra y la han transformado. Muy lejos y olvidados han quedado los efectos medioambientales del anterior sistema económico, así como las injusticias y las...

This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.   Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...

A radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba's collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search for the woman she loves. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from clandestinely,...

"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment." Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer...

Figure paradoxale de libération et d'aliénation, la nudité féminine occupe une place privilégiée dans les productions culturelles contemporaines. Support d'un désir masculin, phallique, blanc, elle assure la promotion et le maintien de relations de pouvoir et participe d'une expérience hégémonique de l'image. Mais quels sont les critères qui font de la femme dénudée une image fascinante? Quel ordre de savoir soutient-elle et de quels...

A Roadmap To Life's Enduring Passages Reckonings, regrets, longings. Life's turning points. Sometimes redemptive, sometimes heartbreaking, these crossroads are familiar to us all. The yearning for a different path, a better ending, is uniquely human. You Can't Get There From Here explores these pivotal moments. In Repossession, we meet a young man looking for closure in his dead girlfriend's apartment; You Again, Always introduces us to a couple...