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Discusses three short stories from Album de familia, 1971, as a kind of triptych of marriage, three stages in the life of the Mexican middle class married woman, from courtship and honeymoon to marriage and then widowhood. Although in these stories she denounces systems of patriarchal oppression, Castellanos refuses to acknowledge the existence of an essence called 'woman'.

In Jose Eustasio Rivera's La voragine, 1924, Arturo Cova's phallocentric logic attempts to circumscribe femininity by silencing the specificity of woman as sexual, as subject, and as sexually subjective. By the end of the novel, he has lost all authority or control over the vortex(t), which inverts itself to become a centrifugal force, scattering and exposing all the mutilated, unstable components of his symbolic system.

The present Number is the first which, through more than three score years and ten of continued publication, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies has dedicated wholly to illuminating-with discussions of currently influential theories, and by analyses of novels, plays and poems composed in a variety of different places and epochs-the natures, roles and problems of women within the always shifting realities of Hispanic Life and Letters. Seven original articles are included, of which all are written by women, and of which all but one concern the work of writers who are also women. Among the authors studied two lived and wrote creatively during the Golden Age of the seventeenth century in Spain and the Spanish Empire. 'Ana Caro, una escritora de \"oficio\" del Siglo de Oro' was, or so it appears, a native of Seville who, between 1628-1645, wrote poems, relaciones, comedias and autos. Caro's activities and writings, too long neglected by other critics, are documented and studied, appropriately, with scrupulous attention, by Lola Luna, a scholar based at the University of Seville who recently completed critical editions of Caro's interestingly de-conventionalized comedias, El Conde Partinuplés and Valor, agravio y mujer.

De noche vienes is a powerful collection of short stories which provides valuable analysis of gender and class relations in Mexico. Poniatowska gives the reader a deep insight into the Catholic woman's problematical position within the heterosexual couple, and provides an in depth analysis of the relationship between bourgeois women and their domestic servants, a much ignored theme in Latin American literature.