Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades/Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS <p><strong><em>REGS </em></strong>(<em>Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades</em>)<em>/<strong>JGSS </strong></em>(<em>Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies, </em>previously known as <em>Letras femeninas</em>) is the journal of the <strong><a href="https://www.aegs-agss.com/revista-regs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades</em> (AEGS/AGSS Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies)</a></strong>.** It is one of the earliest academic journals to be devoted strictly to gender-related issues, women authors, and feminist theory in the context of Hispanic literature and cultures, Luso-Brazilian and US-Latino authors, artists, and filmmakers. <br />The biannual, peer-reviewed journal was first published in the Spring of 1975 at the University of Colorado, Denver, by a progressive group of predominantly Latin and North American women scholars and writers working in US universities and colleges and has been published without interruption since then. In addition to critical articles on gender or gender-related topics,<strong><em> REGS</em> </strong>features interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, and critics and a book review section on every issue.<br />** previously (1974-2017) known as AILCFH (<em>Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femeninas Hispánicas</em>).<br />REGS is sponsored by <strong><a href="https://www.aegs-agss.com">AEGS/AGSS</a> </strong>and<strong> </strong>the <a href="http://rcs.msu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>D<em>epartment of Romance and Classical Studies</em></strong></a> at Michigan State University. </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">Print copies of REGS issues from 2018 (issue 44.1; 44.2, etc.) to the present are available for purchase here: <strong><a href="https://msupressjournals.directfrompublisher.com/catalog/journal/revista-de-estudios-de-genero-y-sexualidades">purchase print on demand</a></strong></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">REGS/JGSS can be read online (with individual or institutional subscription) in <strong><a href="https://www.jstor.org/journal/jgendsexustud">JSTOR</a></strong> (1975-2020) and<a href="https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/regs"><strong> SPC (Scholarly Publishing Collection</strong>)</a> (2013-present). Since January 2023, REGS has been included in<strong> <a href="https://about.muse.jhu.edu/news/Five-Journals-2023">Project MUSE, Premium Collection.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Latest Award-Winning REGS Essay/Issue:</strong><strong><br />2024 Best Collaborative Project Award, </strong><a href="https://www.gemela.org/">GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800)</a>: Yamile Silva &amp; Ana María Díaz Burgos, invited editors. <a href="https://doi.org/10.14321/jgendsexustud.48.1.0053">“<em>Yo, llana estoy:</em> Jerarquías, transgresiones y despliegues de género en América hispana colonial (1492-1898)," <em>REGS </em>48.1 (2022)</a>. <br /><strong>Contributors:</strong> Elena Deana-Camacho, Javiera Jaque, Yolopattli Hernández-Torres, Margarita Paz Torres, Silvia Ruiz Tresgallo, and Paola Uparela. <br />For more award-winning essays and issues, visit the <a href="https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/Awards">Awards page</a>.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><strong><a href="https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/PublishingTerms"><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans', 'Noto Kufi Arabic', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">REGS Publishing Terms</span></a><br /></strong>Given the high number of submissions we receive and process, it may take 6-9 months to receive the first rounds of reviews (along with a recommendation to accept with revisions or against publication).<br />Additionally, it may take 18 to 20 months to have a contribution published from its submission to our OJS platform. We recommend that interested contributors watch the following 60-minute video for a detailed explanation (in Spanish) of our editorial process, stages, and timelines: <strong><a title="Publicado con REGS" href="https://youtu.be/EFZkLXVzisk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Publicando con REGS (video, 60 minutes)</a></strong></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><strong>Contact<br /></strong><a href="https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS"><em>Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades</em></a><em><a href="https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS"> </a><br /></em><em>Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies<br /></em>Published by Michigan State University Press<br />Sponsored by <a href="https://www.aegs-agss.com/">Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades/AGS</a>S<br /><span style="font-size: 0.875rem; font-family: 'Noto Sans', 'Noto Kufi Arabic', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:regseditor@gmail.com">regseditor@gmail.com</a> (January 1, 2025 onwards)<br /><br /></span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><strong><a href="https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/PublishingTerms"><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans', 'Noto Kufi Arabic', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">Publishing Terms</span></a></strong></p> en-US <p>Authors will be required to sign an Author Publishing Agreement with Michigan State University Press before publication:</p><p><a href="https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/michigan-state-university-press/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/09184933/REGS-Author-Publishing-Agreement.pdf">Author Publishing Agreement</a></p><p><a href="https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/michigan-state-university-press/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/09184932/REGS-Book-Review-Author-Publishing-Agreement.pdf">Book Review Publisher Agreement</a></p> regseditor@gmail.com (REGS Editorial Office) eidenie1@msu.edu (MSU Press Support) Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:15:18 -0500 OJS 3.3.0.5 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Detonando miradas: una conversación con Amber Bemak y Nadia Granados https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7739 Mathilda Shepard Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7739 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Rosa Ribas: La novela criminal no siempre es cosa de hombres. https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7910 <p>Entrevista con Rosa Ribas, autora de ficción criminal.</p> <p>Por Elena Losada Soler.</p> Elena Losada Soler, Rosa Ribas Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7910 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 "Desfallece San Pedro" y otros poemas https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/8326 <p>Siete poemas originales e inéditos. Premio Victoria Urbano de Creación 2023, auspiciado por la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades. </p> Claudia Aburto Guzmán Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/8326 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Premio Victoria Urbano 2023 de Reconocimiento Académico https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/8036 <p>Palabras de agradecimiento y discurso de aceptación del Premio Victoria Urbano de Reconocimiento Académico 2023 de la Dra. Raquel Medina Bañón. El discurso se leyó en la ceremonia de Premios Victoria Urbano en el XXXII Congreso de AEGS en Querétaro, México, el 6 de octubre de 2023.&nbsp;</p> Rocío Quispe-Agnoli Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/8036 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Bezhanova, Olga y Amador, Raysa E., eds. Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7655 <p><em>Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices From the Margins </em>(202`1) is an interdisciplinary volume that emphasizes the importance of intersectionality as a critical lens for studying Latin American, Latinx, Caribbean, Chicanx, and Peninsular cultural production in the age of transnationalism. Comprised of feminists of various academic stages and covering a variety of topics such as (but not limited to) transnationalism, migration studies, neoliberalism, gender studies, and artivism, the organization and content of the volume reflects its call for fluidity, border and feminist thinking in academia. Above all, <em>Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism </em>highlights the relevance of power relations in a transnational world and makes space for the voices from the margins.</p> Kailey Henderson Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7655 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Callsen, Berit y Angelika Gross, eds. Cuerpos en oposición, cuerpos en composición. Representaciones de corporalidad en la literatura y cultura hispánicas actuales. https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7052 <p>Book review.</p> Paola Uparela Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7052 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Aldama, Luis & Tess O'Dwyer, eds. Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6999 <p>Book review</p> Diane Marting Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6999 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Correa Ramón, Amelina. "¿Qué mandáis hacer de mí?" Una historia desvelada de relecturas teresianas en el contexto cultural de entresiglos. https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7000 <p>Book review: <br />Correa Ramón, Amelina. "¿Qué mandáis hacer de mí?" Una historia desvelada de relecturas teresianas en el contexto cultural de entresiglos. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2019. </p> Claudia Salazar Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7000 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Domínguez Matito, Francisco, Escudero Baztán, Juan Manuel & Lázaro Niso, Rebeca, eds. Mujer y sociedad en la literatura del Siglo de Oro https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7256 Ana Belén Alvarez Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7256 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Deeb-Sossa, Natalia. Community-Based Participatory Research. Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6998 <p>Book review. </p> Francisca Aguilo Mora Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6998 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Díaz Burgos, Ana María. Tráfico de saberes https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6925 <p>Book review of Díaz Burgos, Ana María. <em>Tráfico de saberes: agencia femenina, hechicería e Inquisición en Cartagena de Indias (1610-1614.</em> Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2020. 263 pp.</p> Jeanne L Gillespie Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6925 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Gámez, María J., Rebeca Maseda & Barbara Zecchi, eds. Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas. https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6834 <p>Book review: </p> <p>Gámez Fuentes, María José, Rebeca Maseda García &amp; Barbara Zecchi, eds. Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas. New York: Routledge, 2020. 222 pp. </p> Carmen Garcia Armero Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6834 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Martinez-Cruz., Paloma. Food Fight! Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace. https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6852 <p>Book review: <br />Martinez-Cruz., Paloma. Food Fight! Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2019. 144 pp.</p> Michelle Sharp Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6852 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Saona, Margarita. Despadre. Masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana. https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7460 <p>Los estudios de género siguen brindando nuevas formas de aproximación a las masculinidades y sus encrucijadas. En el caso de Perú, el libro <em>Despadre. Masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana </em>de Margarita Saona nos ofrece un amplio estudio sobre las masculinidades en la literatura peruana y lo hace a través de ejes transversales como el trauma colonial, la figura del Padre y la trasgresión. La autora centra su investigación en la figura del “padre” e imágenes de varones en la literatura peruana “y que, atravesadas por un conflicto esencial como miembros de una sociedad patriarcal, deben encarnar la ley y el poder; sin embargo, estos personajes, en su mayoría, se enfrentan al hecho de que esa idea – la de encarnar la ley y el poder – es solo una ficción” (15).</p> Jhonn Guerra-Banda Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7460 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Sujetos, objetos y agendas de los feminismos en el Perú (1909-1931) https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7829 <p>Este ensayo analiza tres reediciones de los textos de Zoila Aurora Cáceres,&nbsp;<em>Mujeres de ayer y de hoy,&nbsp;</em>Leonor Espinoza de Menéndez,&nbsp;<em>Zarela. Novela feminista &nbsp;</em>y Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas,&nbsp;<em>Ensayos Selectos&nbsp;</em>y ahonda en las particularidades y tensiones de los feminismos peruanos de entre siglos.&nbsp;</p> Luz Ainaí Morales Pino Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7829 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ambiguity of Female Beauty in María de Zayas https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6839 <p>In her <em>novellas, </em>María de Zayas repeatedly emphasizes the ambiguity of female beauty for those who possess it; good looks do not, as a rule, bring good fortune. Nonetheless, she never imagines a heroine who is ugly or plain; beautiful women provoke lascivious gazes, but less-than-beautiful women are not seen as heroines. This article analyzes the paradox of beauty in Zayas by focusing on one story, “La inocencia castigada," in which the author seems to explore, and ultimately retreat from, the possibility of a protagonist whose value—as a person, as a character—is not dependent on her beauty.</p> Dale Shuger Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6839 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 “Andar vestida de hombre”: Trans/national Crossings in Insumisas https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7223 <p>The trans/national crossings of Enriqueta/Enrique Faber illuminate the nuances of both trans and transnational identities. Faber’s life has been chronicled in numerous texts to date, including, most recently, Fernando Pérez and Laura Cazador’s film <em>Insumisas </em>(2018). Analyzing how Pérez and Cazador endeavor to adapt the historical record to foreground the subversive possibilities of trans/national crossings, I argue that <em>Insumisas</em> ultimately signals the ongoing need for a decolonizing approach to portrayals of both literal and metaphoric crossings throughout what I theorize as the transnational Cuban archipelago.</p> Elena Lahr-Vivaz Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7223 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Josefa Amar’s Enlightened Silences: Drawing Divisions with a Peculiar Catalogue of Early Modern Women https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7101 <p>Josefa Amar’s <em>Discurso en defensa del talento de las mujeres</em> delineates a limited Christian identity for Spain using slavery, Islam, classical studies, and Catherine the Great’s Russia as points of reference. I interpret Amar’s address through Lugones’s explication of the modern colonial gender system and Sylvia Wynter’s concept of “Man1” to argue that Amar reinforces Enlightenment Spain’s colonial color line and that she leaves her most innovative early modern proto-feminist precursors in the shadows by presenting a catalogue of female Latinists as historical evidence of women’s talent.</p> Dana Bultman Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7101 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 History and Autobiography as Obstacles to Symptomatic Reading in Nona Fernández’s Fiction: From Mapocho to Voyager https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6792 <p>In this article, I analyze Chilean writer Nona Fernández’s narrative from the perspective of the ongoing debate between surface reading and symptomatic reading. The first argues that the words of the text should be interpreted literally, without much critical analysis. The second claims that texts contain a “political unconscious,” repressed elements that the critic must uncover. My main argument is that Fernández’s novels, through the use of history, memory, testimony, and especially pervasive autobiographical elements, hinder symptomatic reading methods, thus challenging the simple surface/symptomatic dichotomy.</p> <p> </p> J. Agustín Pastén B. Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6792 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Trapos de cocina en la galería de arte: Elena del Rivero imagina el futuro de los cuidados https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7786 <p>La pandemia COVID-19 reactivó la atención a la crisis de los cuidados en España. Este ensayo responde analizando obras de la artista Elena del Rivero basadas en trapos de cocina. Siguiendo a pensadoras feministas, se discute la interdependencia del trabajo productivo y el trabajo reproductivo dentro de la economía capitalista, se examina el valor monetario oculto del trabajo doméstico y se reflexiona acerca de la dependencia humana, defendiendo la responsabilidad de lo público ante esta realidad. Se concluye que tal vez se necesita un <em>@metoo</em> de los cuidados.</p> Carmen Sanchis-Sinisterra Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7786 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Finding a Feminine Space in Alejandra Pizarnik’s “La condesa sangrienta” and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6964 <p>Alejandra Pizarnik’s “La Condesa Sangrienta” and Sylvia Plath’s <em>The Bell Jar</em> both examine gender roles, female sexuality, and mental illness. Societal constraints shaped their thematic choices, especially in exploring an evolving feminine space.</p> Susan Lee Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/6964 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Las grandes ausentes: invisibilidad femenina en el cine español https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7840 <p>En el cine español sigue prevaleciendo una mirada androcéntrica tanto delante como detrás de la cámara, lo cual obstaculiza la igualdad de género tan necesaria hoy en día. Este ensayo reflexiona sobre las películas ganadoras del Premio Goya en el siglo XXI y critica la escasez de directoras y actrices en papeles protagonistas. Considerando que hay una infrarrepresentación de las mujeres en la mayoría de los filmes premiados, mi estudio denuncia la ausencia de un espacio femenino en el cine contemporáneo y plantea la urgencia de aumentar el protagonismo, agencia y visibilidad de todas las trabajadoras del sector cinematográfico. </p> Ana M Corbalán Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7840 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Rebellious Desires in Ana María Martínez Sagi https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7129 <p>This article examines Ana María Martínez Sagi’s life, poetry, and journalistic career as an act of ethical rebellion. Part of a wave of Spanish women poets in the 1920s and 1930s, she wrote verses that spoke of passion and love, loss and longing. During Franco’s dictatorship, her voice was silenced, and she fell into obscurity as much for her gender as a threat she posed to patriarchy, as for her left-leaning politics and unconventional lifestyle. In this way, this study participates in the recuperation of the poet’s voice.</p> Lynn C. Purkey Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7129 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 ¿Puerto Rico trans?: transtraducción y poesía en x/ex/exis. poemas para la nación de Roque Raquel Salas Rivera https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7051 <p>En este ensayo sostengo que el escritor puertorriqueño Roque Raquel Salas Rivera en su poemario<em> x/ex/exis. poemas para la nación</em> (2020) polemiza con el mito de la gran familia puertorriqueña que niega y oblitera su condición, eminentemente, trans. En particular, propongo que el poeta impugna este mito por medio de una operación que denomino <em>transtraducción</em>, es decir, de un ejercicio que persigue traducir la inconmensurabilidad de la experiencia de una subjetividad trans* y, asimismo, la elegibilidad y trans-opacidad de su corporalidad, con el objeto de revelar y relevar la (im)pertinencia trans de la gran familia puertorriqueña.</p> Ignacio Sánchez Osores Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/REGS/article/view/7051 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500