Skip to content. Skip to navigation. Coming soon. This is an exciting, important, and timely contribution to Latin American literary criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican literature and society. Literature , Cultural Criticism. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture.
In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. In each example the transgressive womanβmarked by an active sexualityβserves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.
Debra A. Castillo is professor of romance studies and comparative literature at Cornell University. Debra Castillo is one of the most original and courageous scholars working in literary and cultural studies today. In this book she takes on the complexities of a textual and sexual economy that has never before been analyzed convincingly.
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