Endorsements

This groundbreaking volume uncovers the longstanding and dynamic relationship between women and the gothic mode across Spain and Latin America. Focusing on literary production from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the book exposes how shifting ideological coordinates have shaped women authors' use of gothic strategies over time to challenge patriarchal norms and oppressive laws within the frameworks of bourgeois capitalism and neoliberalism. Moving away from critical approaches that centre women's vulnerability and distress, the volume situates women's agency-as authors, readers, and protagonists-as fundamental to the Gothic. Bringing together a dynamic collection of essays, the volume offers fresh insights into the intersections of cultural production, feminism/activism, ecological crises, colonialism, and neoliberalism. Domestic violence and femicide, for example, are not simply "private" horrors but symptoms of national and global crises that women have been actively challenging for centuries across political, legal, and literary landscapes with nuance and success. Similarly, women authors of the Gothic engage bodily mutations and zombification not only to criticise ecological destruction and the exploitation of bodies, but to propose alternative models and ways of knowing. Through its feminocentric and transhispanic approaches, this collection challenges traditional readings of the Gothic, offering readers deeper insight into its manifestations beyond the English canon and the transformative power of women's writing.