Plotting Women: Gender & Representation in Mexico, and: Women Writers of Latin America: Intimate Histories (review)
Jean Franco's Plotting Women and Magdalena GarcÃ-a Pinto's Women Writers of Latin America are insightful books whose value is evidenced by their respective publishing histories. Franco's study of Mexican women authors appeared originally in 1989 in hardback, and Garcia Pinto's introduction to and interviews with ten Latin American women authors was first published as Historias Ã-ntimas in 1988 by Ediciones del Norte and is now available in translation. Both books should be