Centering the body in Hispanic women's writings / Renée Sum Scott and Arleen Chiclana y González -- Sniffing the body politic in Emilia Pardo Bazán's Insolación / Tina Pereda -- The body with all its rhythms : the nannies of Posso Figueroa / Ana M. Patiño -- The body as parchment in the poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes / Edith Morris-Vasquez -- Abjection, nation and the prostitute's body in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar / Traci Roberts-Camps -- Damned men! : body desires and masculinity in Arras de cristal by Clara Lair / Jorge Rosario-Vélez -- Bodies politic : nature, nation and society as seen through the body in the poetry of Julia de Burgos / Mark J. Mascia -- To eat or not to eat? : body-text in two short stories by Andrea Blanqué and Andrea Maturana / Renée Scott -- The body of evidence : body-writing, the text and Mayra Santos Febres' illicit bodies / Arleen Chiclana y González -- Anatomy of a woman : pleasure, power and politics in Gioconda Belli's writing / Laura Barbas Rhoden -- Haunting the Chicana : the queer child and the abject mother in the writing of Cherríe Moraga / Joanna L. Mitchell