Acknowledgments
Chronology of Cortazar's Stories
1. Introduction: Cortazar's Female Space and the Configuration of Masculinity
Cortazar's Psychological Obsessions: What's Mom Got to Do with It?
It's Not Me, It's My Dream: The Unconscious and the Unraveling of Sexual Identity
The Evolution of Female Space: A Cautious Rapprochement
2. The Personal and Cultural Context
Cortazar and Women, Cortazar on Women, Cortazar's Women
Values Associated with Motherhood
3. The Omnipotent Mother
"La salud de los enfermos": Caring Exquisitely for Mama
"Cartas de mama": Fantasies of Persecution
4. Mothers and Lovers
A Freudian Fallacy
"Historias que me cuento": The Walter Mitty Complex
"Deshoras": Desperately Seeking Sara
Mother's Darling
Love Affairs: Frustration, Betrayal, Violence
5. Defiant Women, or Coming to Terms with Difference
"Cambio de luces": What Does Luciana Want?
6. "Euridice, Argentina": Women and the Guilty Expatriate
The Family Allegory
"El otro cielo": Dispassionate Patriotism
"Cartas de mama": Mama in the Empty House
"Recortes de prensa": Rage and Impotence during the Proceso
"Diario para un cuento": Anabel/Eurydice Shows Orpheus
What a Cad He Was
7. Women and the "Dirty War"
A War Waged on Women's Bodies
"Pesadillas": The Anguished Patria
"Graffiti": The Female Body-Erotic Object versus Cautionary Message
The Politicization of Motherhood
"Recortes de prensa": Frustrated Writers, Juxtaposed Mothers, Guilty Revenge
"Nuevo elogio de la locura": Motherhood, Madness, and Cortazar's "zona sagrada"
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Works by Cortazar
Interviews of Cortazar
Studies of Cortazar's Works and Life
General Bibliography
Index
