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Carolina Núñez-Puente is Associate Professor of English at the University of A Coruña, Spain. Her fields of research include feminisms and gender studies, critical theory, Anglophone literature, and film criticism. She is the author of Feminism and Dialogics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Meridel Le Sueur, Mikhail Bakhtin (2006) and the co-editor of Queering Women's and Gender Studies (2019). She has participated in collective research projects (e.g. RECONFEM) and has been a visiting scholar in prestigious institutions (e.g. King's College). Núñez-Puente has also published articles in academic journals such as Atlantis, Aztlán, Babel, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Contemporary Women's Writing, and RAEI, to cite but a few. After producing a multiethnic study of prose, poetry, and film from an ethics-based perspective, her research plans include focusing on humor, memory, and women.

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Introduction; Chapter 1. A Queer Feminist Look at Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper": From Screen to Text; Chapter 2. An Ecowomanist Voyage through Hurston's "Sweat": From the Transatlantic to the Trans-imaginary; Chapter 3. Women Poets as Healers: A Trans-American Dialogue on the Body, Sexuality, and Love; Chapter 4. About Female Heterosexuality: Five Stories by Women Authors from Le Sueur (1936) to Lawson (2016); Chapter 5. Gender, Sex(uality), and Humor: Incredible Shrinking Men, from Mark Twain to Lorrie Moore; Chapter 6. Women, War, and Memory: (Dis)Affections in Merlinda Bobis and Simón Casal; Chapter 7. Decolonizing (Post)Humanism and Mainstream Feminism: Seeking Reparation with Gloria Anzaldúa and Sylvia Wynter; Chapter 8. From Humanlike Vegetables to Feminine Men: The Dialogical Posthuman in Silko, Moure, and Jen; Chapter 9. Female Subjectivity in Mustang and Ex Machina: For a Posthuman-feminist Ethics of Care; Conclusion