This groundbreaking study explores feminist theory and literary criticism embedded in seventeen works by Hispanic American authors and Latina writers in the United States. The books bring out women s philosophic and historic concepts of becoming a woman politically in the public sphere of society. Philosophers like Luce Irigaray and Deleuze and Guattari have realized that woman s representation in philosophic discursions are missing. The universal mankind or the omnipresent self can no longer ignore that women have different experiences than man in both the private and public realm.
Each...

This groundbreaking study explores feminist theory and literary criticism embedded in seventeen works by Hispanic American authors and Latina writers in the United States. The books bring out women s philosophic and historic concepts of becoming a woman politically in the public sphere of society. Philosophers like Luce Irigaray and Deleuze and Guattari have realized that woman s representation in philosophic discursions are missing. The universal mankind or the omnipresent self can no longer ignore that women have different experiences than man in both the private and public realm.
Each...