Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Translating Gender -- 2 Gender as Category and Feminism as Strategy in Latin American Literary Analysis -- 3 The Presence in Absence of Exile -- 4 Body/Politics: Alicia Partnoy's The Little School -- 5 Gaby Brimmer: A Life in Three Voices -- 6 The Uses and Limits of Foreign Feminist Theory: Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir -- 7 Sylvia Molloy's Lesbian Cartographies: Body, Text, and Geography -- 8 Cristina Peri Rossi and the Question of Lesbian Presence -- Afterword: In the Realm of the Real -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.