Reinterpreting the Spanish American essay : women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries / edited by Doris Meyer.

'Don't interrupt me': the gender essay as conversation and countercanon / Mary Louise Pratt
Pariah/messiah: the conflictive social identity of Flora Tristan / Jill S. Kunnheim
Slavery in the Spanish colonies: the racial politics of the countess of Merlin / Clair Emilie Martin
'Mejorar la condición de mi secso': the essays of Rosa Guerra / Nancy Saporta Sternbach
Shoring up the 'weaker sex': Avellaneda and nineteenth-century gender ideology / Nina M. Scott
Lost in translation: Eduarda Mansilla de García on politics, gender, and war / Francine Rose Masiello
Writing for her life: the essays of Clorinda Matto de Turner / Mary G. Berg
The Self-constructing heroine: Amanda Labarca's reflections at dawn / Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval
Reciprocal reflections: specular discourse and the self-authorizing venture / Doris Meyer
Teresa de la Parra: America's womanly soul / Richard Rosa and Doris Sommer
'Babel' and De Francesca a Beatrice: two founding essays by Victoria Ocampo / María Cristina Arambel Guiñazú
Alfonsina Storni as 'Tao Lao': journalism's roving eye and poetry's confessional 'I' / Gwen Kirkpatrick
Magda Portal, vanguard critic / Melvin S. Arrington
Yolanda Oreamuno: the art of passionate engagement / Janet N. Gold
The Ambivalence of power: self-disparagement in the newspaper editorials of Rosario Castellanos / Martha Lafollette Miller
Carmen Naranjo and Costa Rican culture / Ardis L. Nelson
Margo Glantz, tongue in hand / Beth E. Jörgensen
Sitio a eros: the liberated eros of Rosario Ferré / Elena Gascón Vera
Vision and transgression: some notes on the writing of Julieta Kirkwood / Marjorie Agosín
Cristina Peri Rossi and the erotic imagination / Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal
Woman watching women, watching / Irene Matthews.