Product Description: This comprehensive and well-researched curriculum fills a long-felt need in the autism community--a frank, up-to-date resource on sexuality tailored to the unique characteristics of high-functioning adolescents and adults on the spectrum...read more

Product Description: The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion...read more

Product Description: Articles in this issue are written by leading feminist historians, sociologists and literary specialists, whose field of research is Latin America. They focus on militarism and patriarchy from the Wars of Independence from Spain (1810-1826) until today, with special emphasis on Chile and Mexico...read more

Product Description: What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from California in the North to Patagonia in the South, and from Majorca in the East to the Andes in the West...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Traces a long tradition of Spanish women's writing from the end of the Romantic period until today. The book studies the major authors within the changing political, cultural and economic context of women's lives over the past 150 years...read more

Product Description: Women have published a rich and varied selection of work in Cuba throughout the twentieth century. Their writings give us a crucial insight into the recent history of that country. In this book, Catherine Davies develops a sophisticated and theoretically informed feminist reading of works by authors such as Dulce María Loynaz and the poet Fina García Marruz who developed their styles in the pre-Revolutionary period and black and mulatto poets such as Nancy Morejón, Georgina Herrera and Excilia Saldaña from the post-1959 socialist era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this timely new study, Catherine Davies provides a critical analysis of post-Franco Spain's most successful women novelists. Delving first into the development of feminism and women's writing and its critical reception in Spain since 1970, the author then focuses on two of the most popular and influential feminist novelists: Barcelona's Montserrat Roig (1946-1991) and Madrid's Rosa Montero (b...read more