Editors’ Introduction
摘要
Authoring Female Identities in Spanish and Latin AmericanLatin America Art and Media examines the articulation of female subjectivitiesFemale subjectivities by femalefemale artists across various Spanish-speaking contexts. Addressing gendergender imbalancesGender imbalances and invisibility, the volume explores how femalefemale creativescreative express identities through diverse media, including poetrypoetry, photographyphotography, painting, cinemacinema, and performance artperformance art. Adopting an intermedialIntermedial and intersectionalIntersectional approach, it connects artistic practicesArtistic practices across different regions and periods. Emerging from the editors’ experiences as young femalefemale scholars, the collection reflects a collaborative feminist scholarshipFeminist scholarship, aiming to reclaim spacesspace through inclusivityInclusivity and creativecreative outputs. Grounded in intersectionalIntersectional, interdisciplinary, and intermedialIntermedial frameworks, the volume brings together diverse contributions, rethinking patriarchal legaciesPatriarchal legacies and highlighting the relationshipheteronormativity/heteronormative family models/relationships between artistic creation and motherhoodmotherhood/estranged/absent mother.