“Eli Bartra, renowned commentator on women's artistic lives in Mexico, introduces us to practitioners in a variety of media, from paintings, posters, and photography to cinema, video, installations, and performance art, offering a remarkably rich set of reflections on everything from race and gender to ethnicity, migration, and political struggle.”

Sally Price, author of Primitive Art in Civilized Places and Paris Primitive

Eli Bartra's new book is a gift! An ambitious, enticing, lively, challenging, well-researched and attractively written essay that uses the topic of visual culture and gender in modern and contemporary Mexico as a pretext to go far beyond and offer us a portrait of our troubled world and its problematic areas. An absolute must for any reader, specialized or otherwise, interested in the visual arts, aesthetics, creativity, non-verbal cognition, culture, criticism, Latin American studies, feminism, power relations, uprootedness, exile, inclusion, resistance and freedom.

Sam Abrams, poet, translator, critic and essayist

"One of Mexico's most important feminist thinkers and scholars of visual culture unites this eclectic volume with her astute “feminist esthetic” and a revealing lens of “nomadic uprootedness.” The rich, varied essays explore a variety of forms and practitioners of visual culture, ranging from film to folk art, and creations by Mexicans, exiles and immigrants, as well as foreign sojourners."

John Lear, author of Picturing the Proletariat