Georgina Jiménez assesses how London’s Tate Modern is exploring ‘Fridamania’.
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern, London
25 June until 3 January 2027
Categories: Mexico, United Kingdom
Painting pain
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Tag: Women
Domestic dissidence
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Invisible encounter
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A study of racial politics mounts a challenge to area studies. Review: Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico, Andrea Mendoza, 2026, Duke University Press
Love and other revolutionary matters
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A sociocultural study of Cuba’s transnational relationships offers rare insights. Review: The Cuban Revolution and the New Left: Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family, Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse (eds), 2026, University of Florida Press
Reproductive resistance
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Judiciaries have shaped how abortion has risen up the agenda. Review: The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, Jordi Díez, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico
Women at arms
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Cuba’s revolution was not won just by bearded white men. Review: Clandestinas: Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955–1959, Carollee Bengelsdorf, with photographs curated by Susan Meiselas, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Cuba
Flight of fancy
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Beasts in the shadows
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Dread has been a significant factor in the Mexican definition of childhood. The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico: Media, Childhood, and Child Kidnapping 1900–1968, Susana Sosenski, translated by Quentin Pope, 2024, Bloomsbury Academic
Categories: Mexico, North America
Puta pride
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A Brazilian sex worker shaped a pioneering feminist outlook. Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta, Gabriela Leite, translated by Meg Weeks, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
Sea change
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It’s time to end the invisibility of women in the informal economy. Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico, María L Cruz-Torres, 2023, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America