Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat, issue 30 

Issue 30 of Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat has been published. This volume includes a dossier, edited by Luz Mar González-Arias (Universidad de Oviedo), dedicated to the Medical Humanities with a gender perspective. Entitled Humanidades médicas y perspectivas de género: una unión necesaria, this dossier aims to make visible the different ways in which gender asymmetries have influenced the supposed objectivity of medical knowledge throughout history, contaminating our contemporary social perception, and lived experience, of illness. To that end, this dossier showcases the need for a systematic presence of the gender perspective in biomedical research as well as in the cultural representation, and social perception, of corporeal pathologies and mental-health issues. The miscellaneous section offers analyses of authors such as Anzia Yezierska, Rosalía de Castro, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, María Nsue, Dora Albanese, Monique Wittig, Belén Gaudes, Lucía Etxebarria and Ángela Vallvey, as well as topics such as Argentine popular literature in the early 20th century and women’s magazines in Morocco. The journal, which as usual includes a section of book reviews, concludes with a section that, in line with the dossier, is dedicated to artistic creation as a therapeutic tool (autoethnographic essay, poetry, and sculpture), with works by Isabel Alonso-Breto, Susan Bleakley and Elisa Torreira.