{"title":"Body Unbound: Poetry of Illness, Gender, and Disability in torrin a. greathouse’s Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (2020)","authors":"Shadia Abdel-Rahman Téllez","doi":"10.1344/lectora2024.30.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2024.30.6","url":null,"abstract":"La primera colección de poesía de torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (2020), articula el oscuro lenguaje del dolor, trauma y sufrimiento que emana de la carne. Su poesía del cuerpo herido indaga sobre los sesgos capacitistas y de género implícitos en los discursos médicos, sociales y culturales y su impacto en su identidadcomo mujer trans con discapacidad y afecciones crónicas. El análisis de una selección de sus poemas desvela una minuciosa deconstrucción de los dualismos macho/hembra, capacidad/discapacidad, salud/enfermedad y normal/anormal que gobiernan su mundo. Esta poeta libera un cuerpo cuyo género y capacidad se esconden tras el esencialismo biomédico dominante, los términos diagnósticos y los tratamientos imprecisos, reflexionando sobre la análoga medicalización de la discapacidad, enfermedad, transgenerismo y trauma. greathouse ver-sifica su reconciliación con un cuerpo oprimido por los discursos que consideran los cuer-pos trans y con discapacidades en términos de deficiencia e imperfección.","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":"1 30","pages":"101-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147913347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tale Worth Told: Neoliberal Feminism and Conditional Hospitality in Masih Alinejad's The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (2018)","authors":"Parisa Delshad","doi":"10.1344/lectora2023.29.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2023.29.7","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the conceptualization of freedom in the memoir of the Iranian-American journalist and media activist, Masih Alinejad. It examines The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (2018) with respect to Alinejad’s activism in the \"Woman, Life, Freedom\" movement in Iran. The paper utilizes a critical framework drawn from feminist critiques of neoliberal feminism and Derridean hospitality to focus on Alinejad’s repetition of the narratives of model minority and American exceptionalism. These neoliberal narratives have the potential to turn both Iran and the United States into inhospitable places for women. The paper concludes that an intersectional examination of Alinejad’s neoliberal approach to the experiences of women in both the United States and Iran will demonstrate that it does not coincide with the demands of \"Woman, Life, Freedom\".","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":"1 29","pages":"117-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/download/41413/40233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147913599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mis días en México. Diarios (1939 - 1953), Manuela Ballester Vilaseca , Carmen Gaitán Salinas (ed.)","authors":"María José González Madrid","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44237577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Las otras voces de la Edad de Plata: Mercedes Pinto y la mujer moderna","authors":"Alicia Llarena","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.28.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.28.7","url":null,"abstract":"La vida y la obra de la polifacética escritora canaria Mercedes Pinto personifican a la mujer moderna que surge en la Edad de Plata y prefigura un concepto y un ideal al que contribuye con sus novelas, sus obras teatrales, sus conferencias, su prosa periodística y su variado e intenso activismo. Tras impartir en la Universidad Central de Madrid la conferencia titulada \"El divorcio como medida higiénica\" en noviembre de 1923, tiene que huir del país y exiliarse a Latinoamérica, donde vivirá el resto de su larga vida, que transcurrió entre Uruguay, Chile, Cuba y México, y donde tuvo popularidad y reconocimiento. Estas páginas quieren sumar su nombre al de ese conjunto de mujeres de la Edad de Plata que dieron un paso adelante en la vida pública para reclamar derechos y espacios de libertad y autonomía personal, mostrando algunas de las ideas, palabras y reflexiones feministas que compartió en su polémica conferencia sobre el divorcio y en los artículos que publica en los diarios de Montevideo y La Habana, convertidos en un canal de difusión y una herramienta pedagógica sobre la mujer moderna.","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45924758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Libros y lecturas en el epistolario de Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún","authors":"María Jesús Fraga Fernández Cuevas","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.28.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.28.12","url":null,"abstract":"La correspondencia entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún comienza en 1947 cuando, desde Madrid, Laforet escribe a la que considera su madre literaria, que todavía no había puesto fin a su exilio en Buenos Aires. Ya en Barcelona, continúa la comunicación epistolar entre ambas, lo que les proporciona un medio para intercambiar libros y lecturas. Aunque, a mediados de 1951, Elena Fortún debe ser ingresada en un sanatorio, la correspondencia, cada vez más espiritual, no se detiene hasta pocas semanas antes de su muerte.","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49419138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Los invertidos. Verdad, justicia y reparación para gais y transexuales bajo la dictadura franquista, Geoffroy Huard","authors":"C. Serra","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.28.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.28.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47434542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Il miele e l’amaro. Lettura mistico - sapienziale dell’Apocalisse, Antonietta Potente","authors":"Helena Casas Perpinyà","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.28.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.28.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44099685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution, Stephanie Lynn Budin","authors":"Josué J. Justel","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.28.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.28.25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47655170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lettres de fuite. Séminaire 2001-2004, Hélène Cixous, Marta Segarra (ed.)","authors":"Oriol López Esteve","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.28.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.28.26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47617319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Female Neighbour in Whose Country? The Untold Story of Afia Begum and the Sari Squad","authors":"A. Chatterjee","doi":"10.1344/lectora2022.28.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/lectora2022.28.14","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is one of the first attempts to reconstruct the story of Afia Begum, wife —and later widow— of Abdul Hamid (a Bangladeshi immigrant in Thatcherite London), whose entry was cleared by the British Home Office in 1982, months before her husband died tragically in a fire in East London. Upon her arrival in the United Kingdom, Afia was told that her grant to stay in the country was no longer valid owing to the death of her husband; that she was now an illegal immigrant in Britain. In the process of the reconstruction, I also revisit the untold story of the Sari Squad, a group of Asian women who fought valiantly, though peacefully, to stop Afia’s deportation. Although Afia was deported on May 8, 1984, her case was heard in the European Court of Human Rights and debated in the European Parliament; in both forums, the highhandedness of the British Home Office was fiercely critiqued. By way of conclusion, I lay out a hermeneutic in which to read Afia’s story, in a literary sense, offering a skeptical stance to reading it in binary terms of success-defeat/victimization-survival of a female foreigner battling a racist state. In doing so, I draw upon Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “connection between nationalism and reproductive heteronormativity”, to argue that the case of Afia’s deportation suggests that her nationality can only be —tragically— established by determining the citizenship of her husband; this ends up doubly othering and transcendentalizing her nationality, reducing her to her sociobiological reproductive heteronormativity, impregnated with the cryptic trace of her husband’s ghost which practically became the summum bonum of her deprived statehood.","PeriodicalId":41770,"journal":{"name":"Lectora-Revista de Dones i Textualitat","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45141139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}