Frohlich, Margaret G. Theorizing Gender in the Wake of Feminist Waves: An Open Letter to the Association, in Hacia una redefinición del feminismo y los estudios de género en el siglo XXI / Toward a Redefinition of Feminism and Gender Studies in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Margaret G. Frohlich and Ana Corbalán, special issue, Letras Femeninas 41, no. 1 (2015): 73-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23022339 .

Theorizing Gender in the Wake of Feminist Waves: An Open Letter to the Association is the Preface for the Special Issue of Letras Femeninas, Hacia una redefinición del feminismo y los estudios de género en el siglo XXI / Toward a Redefinition of Feminism and Gender Studies in the Twenty-First Century, guest co-edited by Margaret G. Frohlich and Ana Corbalán. For more information on the published version, visit Letras Femenina's Website.

Favoring the domestic interior; passive; known for her emotional capacity, not her intellect; object of sexual desire without having any of her own; necessarily heterosexual; a father's daughter; existing behind every great man; ángel del hogar: woman is a category that scholars of AILCFH have long questioned. Feminist inquiry's capacity to criticize the tyranny of categorical limits doesn't contradict the need to name the experiences of living as a woman; of being assigned to the female sex; of being ignored; of being subject to gender discrimination, oppression and censorship. Questioning essentialist constructs and naming subjectivity are not necessarily opposed, and the coexistence of both practices need not break alliances.

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