Politics. Women's Studies. Latina Studies. Fiction. This anthology gathers translated versions of texts read at the Second Encounter of Latin-American Women Writers, a confernece held in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1998. Sponsored by the Guadalajara Centre of PEN International. the conference brought together more than 80 writers from 11 countries. Included in this publication are texts by Amelia del Castillo, Martha Cerda, Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, Gloria Guardia, Lucina Kathmann, Seymour Menton, Maria Guadalupe Morfin Otero, Alejandra Ulloa and Cecilia Urbina. "The great conclusion that can be drawn from this type of forum encourages the interrelation among Latin-American women writers, an interrelation so hard to achieve any other way" --Martha Cerda, from the Preface.