Spirituality lies at the heart of a groundbreaking study of Chicana art with a disdain for the patriarchal
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Tag: Women
Strange alliances in a search for identity
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A key theme threading throughout The Ecuador Reader is diversity amid the quest for unity
Categories: Ecuador, South America
An American utopia
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Alexander Missal demonstrates that the construction site of the Panama Canal was not just filled with mud and water – but with meaning for the US as it began to assert itself on the world stage
Categories: Central America, North America, Panama, United States
Pass the bottle
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Andrea Blanqué’s Fragilidad enters the void of Uruguay’s dark past and a present of empty aspirations
Categories: South America, Uruguay
Just so you know
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A documentary by Rosie Pérez that delves into Puerto Rican history belies her image as a Brooklyn broad
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Neither but both
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Lucía Puenzo’s XXy is a mature and intelligent reflection on the dilemmas of ‘intersexuality’
Categories: Argentina, South America
Muchacha in the maquila
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US car giants employed women in Mexico as a stick with which to beat male workers
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Pirouetting towards Hell
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Dana Rotberg’s bleak and fatalistic Angel de Fuego struggles to achieve the status of a parable
Categories: Mexico, North America
And the state invented woman
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A new concept of womankind was forged in post-revolutionary Mexico
Categories: Mexico, North America
Nationalism’s uncomfortable truths
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Is it wise to use Mexico as the basis for a framework in which to study women, ethnicity and nationalism in Latin America?
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, North America, South America