Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy -- Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism -- Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion -- The violent text: separating the social and the political -- Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence -- Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border -- The perverse heterosexual. |