Los exvotos del occidente de México

En este volumen se ofrece por primera vez la traducción al español de un texto del viajero austriaco del siglo XIX Isidore Löwenstern. Este volumen constituye un excelente retrato de la vida y costumbres del México de la época, así como de los lugares y situaciones de mayor importancia para el viajero. Es, además, una aproximación privilegiada, desde la perspectiva de un explorador de filiación monárquica y colonialista, al pensamiento que el hombre del viejo mundo guardaba sobre su contraparte extranjera.

¿Dónde están las lesbianas en el siglo XIX? Este flash ensayo forma parte del celebrado libro Señoras que se empotraron hace mucho, en el que se presenta a mujeres que, de un modo u otro, desafiaron las convenciones sociales a través de expresar abiertamente su sexualidad. En este caso, hallamos una selección de algunas de las señoras que amaron a otras mujeres en el siglo XIX, entre las cuales podríamos destacar a Anne Lister y sus diarios codificados, a la actriz Charlotte Cushman o a la anarquista Marie Equi, que luchó por los derechos de obreros, mujeres y el colectivo LGTBQ....

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